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AI to help me read docs does seem somewhat handy but I feel like if there's already documentation it's really just gonna save a couple of minutes? I will be mu
by bjackman 4y ago
AI to help me read docs does seem somewhat handy but I feel like if there's already documentation it's really just gonna save a couple of minutes?
I will be much more excited when AI can explain undocumented systems to me. This feels like it can't be far away, and it will be a game changer.
I guess for this to be helpful it is gonna need out-of-band info, but maybe just the git log would be a pretty good start. If you could add a mailing list or chat history of developers I imagine things could get more powerful.
- sadrobin 4y agoStep 1. Is documented systems, plain code is next. Thank you for your suggestion, great ideas!
- monkeydust 4y agoWe have plenty of partially documented systems, it's a constant challenge to keep it up to date. I wonder if this could be brought more in-line with production by merging documents with support request logs and even code ?
- bjackman 4y agoI think it would be silly to have AI _write docs_ for us! Documentation is an obsolete concept at that point. You can just ask the AI exactly what you need to know.