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Re: Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness

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This is very good - I have found that well-designed progressive disclosure systems like this tend to be far more effective and performant than cookie-cutter semantic / encoding-based RAG systems. Agents seem to love tables of contents.

It definitely feels more correct from a first principles perspective. It always seemed crazy that we often just throw a bunch of data at an LLM and go figure it out. It's filled with irrelevant junk. That would slow us down so why wouldn't it slow down AI? Though I will say it has been a challenge to get agents to reliably use tools like `treedocs explore`. They tend to default to using their built in tooling first o…

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