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Google Releases CodeWiki

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Re: Google Releases CodeWiki

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oshams wrote: post #2

Hello HN, We previously launched Auto Wiki ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915999 ) in Jan 2024 and broke the ground for AI generated wikis that explain your code. Now this product has been rebuilt by the same team, as well as others and launched as a part of Google. Hope you enjoy. Although, I've recently moved on to working on Gemini and AI research, I'm still involved as an advisor and founder emeritus of…

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Post by xena »

oshams wrote: post #2

Hello HN, We previously launched Auto Wiki ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915999 ) in Jan 2024 and broke the ground for AI generated wikis that explain your code. Now this product has been rebuilt by the same team, as well as others and launched as a part of Google. Hope you enjoy. Although, I've recently moved on to working on Gemini and AI research, I'm still involved as an advisor and founder emeritus of…

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Post by _23sd »

Interesting. I've found Claude Code very useful for answering questions about codebases. I think that kind of functionality is on the whole more useful than static AI-generated documentation, but maybe there's a place for an always-ready and google-able starting point.

It badly needs to split up the pages for different parts of large codebases. The golang/go page is way too long and the table of contents sidebar makes you watch a scrolling animation to expand subsections.

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Post by kittikitti »

I like the idea behind this and think it could be useful for agentic applications and reduce hallucinations. However, I usually just read the source code for the most up to date understanding and it's my best approach. After a quick look at CodeWiki, it could be useful to cross reference while analyzing the code and I look forward to testing it out next time it could apply.

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Post by opaquej »

Anectodally, I've found Gemini to provide useful, but made-up solutions to issues I've encountered with Google products. It showed reasonable understanding of my problem, but then gave me solutions which the actual documentation essentially made clear were not possible. YMMV
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