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Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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Does this meet that requirement? https://wiki.mutable.ai/dadongshangu/async_FIFO

I’m seeing “Wiki not found” for that link, perhaps an AuthZ issue?

Try reloading that usually works. BTW, we identified the issue that was affecting the subset of users on the first load. We are pushing out a fix as we speak.

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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Cool concept. Right off the bat I see some big issues with the generated CPython documentation: > This provides a register-based virtual machine that executes the bytecode through simple opcodes. Python's VM is stack-based, not register-based. > The tiered interpreter in …/ceval.c can compile bytecode sequences into "traces" of optimized microoperations. No such functionality exists in CPython, as far as I know. > Th…

Thank you for this feedback. We actually have an Auto Wiki v2 in the works which is even higher quality, would be interesting to see how it changes when that comes out.

Can you talk a little bit about the crawler or what information are you feeding the agent about the repostory? My main concern is that this is just hallucinating the documentation and that with the more well known repos like React it can pull the data from training data like blogs etc.

I think the concept is really great would just like to understand especially for enterprise use cases.

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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The only thing I see that this adds over existing docs-to-HTML tooling is that it uses a wikipedia-inspired theme.

Meanwhile on the negative side, it adds hallucinations. You say you "cut back" on them but as teraflop's comment shows, it still has plenty.

BTW: even the Mastodon link from your OP says "wiki not found" for me.

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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post #29

Cool concept. Right off the bat I see some big issues with the generated CPython documentation: > This provides a register-based virtual machine that executes the bytecode through simple opcodes. Python's VM is stack-based, not register-based. > The tiered interpreter in …/ceval.c can compile bytecode sequences into "traces" of optimized microoperations. No such functionality exists in CPython, as far as I know. > Th…

Thank you for this feedback. We actually have an Auto Wiki v2 in the works which is even higher quality, would be interesting to see how it changes when that comes out.

I would expect something like this to output only factually correct documentation since it would be used as reference; but it sounds like even under the upcoming v2 that's not the case?

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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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.

I have the same issue with https://wiki.mutable.ai/d3/d3 - "Wiki not found".

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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I'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…

Great point! Here's an example of an obscurer repo with a good wiki: https://wiki.mutable.ai/dadongshangu/async_FIFO

Impressive. I would be interested in this once it hits general availability. I would also love to see it operate on a local repository, because I may not be hosting my source code on Github.

Re: Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for this feedback. We actually have an Auto Wiki v2 in the works which is even higher quality, would be interesting to see how it changes when that comes out.

I would expect something like this to output only factually correct documentation since it would be used as reference; but it sounds like even under the upcoming v2 that's not the case?

Autogenerating documentation that could then be corrected by a human could still have value, in fairness
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