Comment by mk_chan

3 hours ago

This is just plain worse than giving the agent an instruction to just always read the code.

Documentation was always a proxy for the code so the people who didn’t have context could get started. Obviously if reading the code and reading the doc have the same cost, the doc is completely worthless. This was always the case. You could never depend only on the docs. It’s always the code that actually mattered.

But reading the doc if it's maintained llmwiki style is much cheaper than reading the code on a large codebase.