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

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Post by e12e »

oshams wrote: post #70
hk__2 wrote: post #38

That’s nice but the name is confusing: it’s not generating a wiki at all, but a documentation website with a Wikipedia-like theme. Wikis are collaborative websites; Wikipedia is only one of them.

Apologies for the confusion, we are thinking of adding the ability to edit the wikis. What do you think?

A wiki is a wiki wiki (quick, fast) web. It's defining characteristic is quickly and easily user-editable.

Your current product isn't a wiki generator, it's a website generator.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

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

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Post by oshams »

janfoeh wrote: post #36
oshams wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

we fixed the issue causing this, should work now!

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

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Post by oshams »

localhost wrote: post #20
localhost wrote: post #10

Would it scale to something like the Linux kernel? How much would it cost to process something of that size?

I think it would be a wonderful education tool for future hackers on that codebase!

Agreed, we should have done it earlier, multiple people have asked for it now. Can't wait!

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

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Post by oshams »

noone_youknow wrote: post #41

Nice! I’d be interested to see how it handles https://github.com/rosco-m68k/rosco_m68k , it’s a mixed software / hardware repo, with a lot of code in assembler and C (for an old platform). Might be a challenge?

On it ! We've gotten it to work on verilog (see an earlier thread), this should pose a similar challenge!

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

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Post by oshams »

e12e wrote: post #72
oshams wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apologies for the confusion, we are thinking of adding the ability to edit the wikis. What do you think?

A wiki is a wiki wiki (quick, fast) web. It's defining characteristic is quickly and easily user-editable. Your current product isn't a wiki generator, it's a website generator. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Great point! It's a website generator in the style of wikis that could become a wiki in the future if we add the ability to edit it.

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

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Post by wintogreen74 »

oshams wrote: post #66
velox_neb wrote: post #64

Reading these wikis makes me feel we need to invent some visual convention to indicate AI-generated text. Like a particular color or font. This would make it so people don't feel cheated after they realize they just spent several minutes trying to make sense of something churned out by an LLM. (I mean this as a voluntary design enhancement for sites that want to be nice, of course people can always cheat.)

Hi! Appreciate your comment, I personally think AI generated content is the future. The reactions people are having to AI generated content is very similar to the reactions to the printing press whereby anyone could write anything and mass distribute it. I think people also had similar reactions to Google indexing the web. (Note: I'm not discounting existential risk, that is real but another topic for another day.)

Pretty big stretch to compare a massive disruption to the medium with a massive disruption to the content. The press is far closer to the web than generative content. The output from AI is closer to the unibomber's manifesto, and the only entity calling for burning detractors at the stake is vested-interest individuals like you, and AI itself.
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