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AI to help me read docs does seem somewhat handy but I feel like if there's already documentation it's really just gonna save a couple of minutes?

I will be much more excited when AI can explain undocumented systems to me. This feels like it can't be far away, and it will be a game changer.

I guess for this to be helpful it is gonna need out-of-band info, but maybe just the git log would be a pretty good start. If you could add a mailing list or chat history of developers I imagine things could get more powerful.



We have plenty of partially documented systems, it's a constant challenge to keep it up to date. I wonder if this could be brought more in-line with production by merging documents with support request logs and even code ?


I think it would be silly to have AI _write docs_ for us! Documentation is an obsolete concept at that point. You can just ask the AI exactly what you need to know.


Step 1. Is documented systems, plain code is next. Thank you for your suggestion, great ideas!




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