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[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Have you tried to use AI for documentation? It's pretty shit.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Have you tried to use AI for <thing>? It's pretty shit.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Translation, proofreading, summarizing, brainstorming, boilerplate code, protein folding...

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

protein folding

We’re at the point where, due to how b2c tech services work, I think a lot of people think AI === LLM

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've used AI to give me a good enough guess that I know the right keywords to search for too find the real documentation.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

How about this:
Humans (or humans assisted by AI) write documentation
Users (devs included) can either choose to read the manual the old fashioned way or utilize it like a sort of swagger api documentation to give

  1. Information to a question (How to do x)
  2. Provide a general example
  3. (Assuming it's used with an IDE or has information about the project) Provide a personalized example on the implementation.
[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve had pretty good experience with using AI to find what I’m looking for in documentation, especially if the docs are in context

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago

I think they mean having an AI read code and then write documentation for it. Not having an AI read documentation.