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Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by sdwr » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #46

dvt wrote: post #45

Love how the AI hype went from "it's going to write code for you!" to "oh okay, maybe just boring boilerplate" to "it's basically a glorified search" (and it probably won't be great at that, either).

Lot's of people (including me) use co-pilot and chat gpt to save several hours a week, likely > 1 hour a day. It's under hyped.

Yeah, it saves me time + effort, and lets me reach for larger changes than I otherwise would. It acts as a safety net / scaffolding as well as just answering Qs / writing code.

Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by mooreds » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 7:01 PM UTC

We're using kapa.ai for this right now, pretty happy with them.

It's an LLM trained on our docs, openapi spec, github issues, and forum posts.

Definitely been helpful to our customers and users to find answers/pointers to docs more quickly.

Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by whalesalad » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 7:33 PM UTC

Is there a way to do the inverse: produce a rough draft of a complete documentation site based on reading a codebase?

Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by mpalmer » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

dvt wrote: post #45

Love how the AI hype went from "it's going to write code for you!" to "oh okay, maybe just boring boilerplate" to "it's basically a glorified search" (and it probably won't be great at that, either).

Counter-hype is becoming just about as tiresome as hype. Have you used AI in anger for any of these use cases?

Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by joeblubaugh » Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 2:17 AM UTC

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #47

joeblubaugh wrote: post #2

Love how 3/4 reactions are engineers from GitHub rather than customers.

They are engineering tools... if your internal engineers are loving your engineering tools, you are onto something.

Maybe, but the marketing message comes across as “GitHub says GitHub product is good”

Re: Copilot for Docs

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Post by danielmarkbruce » Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 6:29 PM UTC

joeblubaugh wrote: post #55

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are engineering tools... if your internal engineers are loving your engineering tools, you are onto something.

Maybe, but the marketing message comes across as “GitHub says GitHub product is good”

At least in my experience..if you can get a bunch of your own, often cynical (/tired of bs) engineers to say something you built is good, it's very different than the marketing or product people saying it's good..