Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

Re:Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fu... by bjackman on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:17AM (#34653570)

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.

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Re:Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fu... by monkeydust on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:19AM (#34653580)

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 ?

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Re:Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fu... by bjackman on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:00PM (#34659892)

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.

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Re:Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fu... by sadrobin on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:40AM (#34654394)

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

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