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> You need a system of code management (documentation, diagram, IDE, tests, etc), to explain in a human-friendly way what the hell is going on

I think this is where AI could be helpful in explaining and inspecting large codebases, as an assist to a developer.

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Maybe but hallucinations become a real problem here. Even with publicly available API's that are just slightly off the beaten path, I've gotten full-on hallucinations that have derailed me and wasted time.

> I think this is where AI could be helpful in explaining and inspecting large codebases, as an assist to a developer.

That's a great point. Everyone lauds the benefits of chatgpt/copilot in generating new code, but I'm starting to learn that the places they might shine is onboarding onto projects and preliminary code reviews. What LlMs excel at is context, and they should excel in activities where context-awareness is key.

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