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Re:Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into e... by runeks on Sunday April 20, 2025 @12:28PM (#43744780)
Useful documentation explains why the code does what it does. Ie. why is this code there?

An LLM can't magically figure out your motivation behind doing something a certain way.

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Re:Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into e... by johnnyyyy on Sunday April 20, 2025 @01:23PM (#43745102)
Are you implying that only the creator of the code can write documentation?
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Re:Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into e... by oblio on Sunday April 20, 2025 @03:08PM (#43745807)
No, they're saying that LLMs (and really, most other humans) can't really write the best documentation.

Frankly, most documentation is useless fluff. LLMs will be able to write a ton of that for sure :-)

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Re:Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into e... by bonzini on Monday April 21, 2025 @02:21AM (#43748933)
Tell it the why of the API and ask it to write individual function and class docs then.
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