Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials

Post by kristopolous » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 1:28 AM UTC

zh2408 wrote: post #8

kristopolous wrote: post #7

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I've been using llama 4 Maverick through openrouter. Gemini was my go to but I switched basically the day it came out to try it out. I haven't switched back. At least for my use cases it's been meeting my expectations. I haven't tried Microsoft's new 1.58 bit model but it may be a great swap out for sentencellm, the legendary all-MiniLM-L6-v2. I found that if I'm unfamiliar with the knowledge domain I'm mostly using…

Yeah, I'd recommend trying Gemini 2.5 Pro. I know early Gemini weren't great, but the recent one is really impressive in terms of coding ability. This project is kind of designed around the recent breakthrough.

Post by CalChris » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 1:47 AM UTC

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Post by j45 » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 2:53 AM UTC

throwaway314155 wrote: post #24

I suppose I'm just a little bit bothered by your saying you "built an AI" when all the heavy lifting is done by a pretrained LLM. Saying you made an AI-based program or hell, even saying you made an AI agent, would be more genuine than saying you "built an AI" which is such an all-encompassing thing that I don't even know what it means. At the very least it should imply use of some sort of training via gradient desce…

Post by vivzkestrel » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 3:29 AM UTC

Retr0id wrote: post #12

The overview diagrams it creates are pretty interesting, but the tone/style of the AI-generated text is insufferable to me - e.g. https://the-pocket.github.io/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge/Req...