Comment by magicalhippo

1 year ago

So no free lunch? Making a detailed wiki of all the code would take several developer-years for us, and we're just a handful of developers.

Or is the wiki generated somehow?

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songeater  1 year ago

(edited) I think mutable is generating an auto-wiki of your repo.

Separately - would like to know if wiki can be auto-generated from a large corpus of text. Should be a much simpler problem? Any answers would be much appreciated!

  • kaycebasques  1 year ago

    Given that the company is called Mutable AI and they called the product (?) Auto Wiki then I have to assume that they auto-generated the wiki. But I agree that the wording is ambiguous and could be interpreted as "we manually created the wiki".

    > So we went back to step 1, let’s understand the code, let’s do our homework, and for us, that meant actually putting an understanding of the codebase down in a document — a Wikipedia-style article — called Auto Wiki. The wiki features diagrams and citations to your codebase.

    (Edit) Homepage makes it clear they're talking about ML-generated wiki https://mutable.ai/

    • magicalhippo  1 year ago

      Yeah I mean when I read "for us, that meant actually putting an understanding of the codebase down in a document" I assume that's a person. For me, current AI's don't have any understanding as such.

      But yeah, upon closer inspection I see in the sidebar it says "Create your own wiki - AI-generated instantly". So that clears up my confusion.

oshams  1 year ago

i actually think the world has many free lunches for those looking hard enough :)