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Re: Google Releases CodeWiki

#31
Seems great: I looked at two largish code bases I'm familiar with, and learned something each time.

But is this just a summary for the impatient, or can it reduce the effort for developers writing docs?

Docs have always been the mirror of code, and thus hard to get and keep right. Can we do without the mirror, or parts of it?

Does it work when you haven't written documentation for your code? Let's say one is fanatical about writing such clear code that names are sufficient to convey what's happening (i.e., no documentation and no comments). Does it work?

If not, does it work when there are only (clear) comments?

Does it tell you when documentation, comments, or code is unclear or missing?

I.e., I'd like it to go beyond summarization to fill easy gaps and point developers to the hard ones.

The marketing blurbs on point are not helpful.

Re: Google Releases CodeWiki

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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…

How do I opt out?

Without snark, delete all instances of your code from github or similar places.

Re: Google Releases CodeWiki

#37
The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.

Re: Google Releases CodeWiki

#40
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do I opt out?

Without snark, delete all instances of your code from github or similar places.

If they choose to publish no-truth-value garbage about my life's work I will f**ing shred them with words.

This project and the whole philosophy behind it is just dripping with disrespect so you won't find me in line to be polite to the people who made it. If they're going to walk over and chunder their lukewarm slop onto me they can expect a verbal fistfight.

I opt out

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