Should all the repos in the “Explore” section already be generated? I clicked on apple/swift from the Languages tab and got “Wiki not found”, which isn’t what I expected to see
Sorry to hear that, can you try again? https://wiki.mutable.ai/apple/swift works for me.
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#12I tried the app version on one of my old repos. It’s a somewhat challenging test case because there are few comments and parts of the code are incomplete, though I’d say the naming convention is pretty good. The app suggested the question “What is the purpose of the ‘safemode-ui-hook.m’ file?” I accepted the suggestion, and the output was… completely wrong.
I’m not surprised it guessed the purpose wrong; even a human would need some context to understand what’s going on in that particular file, though of course the AI did worse by being confidently wrong rather than saying it didn’t know. But the AI also made specific claims that could be seen as wrong just by reading the file. It claimed the file “defines a SUBSTITUTE_safemodeUIHook C struct” when neither that struct name nor anything like it appears anywhere in the file. The name seems to just be mashed together from the repo name and file name.
Which makes me wonder, did the AI even see the content of the file? Is it pre-summarized somehow in a way that makes it know very little about the file? Or did the AI see it in full, but hallucinate anyway?
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#13As an aside, I've been thinking of creating an auto-wiki for game lore based on what AI npcs say, i.e. convert their hallucinations into canon.
How was your experience of taking unstructured text (though code is more structured) and making it into wikis?
How difficult is to have it do incremental updates vs re-create it all?
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#14Would it scale to something like the Linux kernel? How much would it cost to process something of that size?
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#15[Edit: Apparently I’m reviewing the wrong product; see replies.] I tried the app version on one of my old repos. It’s a somewhat challenging test case because there are few comments and parts of the code are incomplete, though I’d say the naming convention is pretty good. The app suggested the question “What is the purpose of the ‘safemode-ui-hook.m’ file?” I accepted the suggestion, and the output was… completely wr…
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#16I'd love to see the wiki generated for a less already-documented example. These high-profile projects are good demos and the results look compelling (I checked out AutoGPT's and NeoVim's), but these projects already have a ton of documentation that helps the model substantially. What are the smaller projects where it has to generate documentation from code (and not necessarily well-commented code) rather than existin…
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#18Love the idea! I will try it on my own repo! As an aside, I've been thinking of creating an auto-wiki for game lore based on what AI npcs say, i.e. convert their hallucinations into canon. How was your experience of taking unstructured text (though code is more structured) and making it into wikis? How difficult is to have it do incremental updates vs re-create it all?
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#19Would be great to see for https://github.com/symfony/symfony , thanks! As that's a monorepo it may provide a challenge to the tool.
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#20Would it scale to something like the Linux kernel? How much would it cost to process something of that size?