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amelius ◴[] No.43743668[source]
I've said this a few times on HN: why don't we use LLMs to generate documentation? But then came the naysayers ...
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1. tdy_err ◴[] No.43744382[source]
Alternatively, document your code.
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2. cushychicken ◴[] No.43744398[source]
Id have bought a lot of lunches for myself if I had a dollar for every time I’ve pushed my team for documentation and had it turn into a discussion of “Well, how does that stack up against other priorities?

It’s a pretty foolproof way for smart political operators to get out of a relatively dreary - but high leverage - task.

AI doesn’t complain. It just writes it. Makes the whole task a lot faster when a human is a reviewer for correctness instead of an author and reviewer.