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Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs by userbinator on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:13PM (#35298921)
People have been doing that for a long time. It's usually a form of malicious compliance to "document everything" policies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4ktp12/my_...

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Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs by raincole on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:17PM (#35298939)
Just becasue people are doing that for a long time it doesn't mean we should make it more efficient.
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Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs by hedora on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:45PM (#35299103)
Just because we shouldn’t doesn’t mean people won’t pay for the service.

My “Well done” was not meant sarcastically!

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Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs by userbinator on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:48PM (#35299124)
I doubt an LLM is more efficient than previous documentation generators.
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Re:Automatically document an entire codebase using LLMs by hedora on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:04AM (#35303331)
Wait. This is already an industry?!?
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