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Comment by wedn3sday | Hacker News Reader

One use case I'd love to see an easy plug-and-play solution for is a RAG build around companies vast internal documentation/wikis/codebase to help developers onboard and find information faster. I would love to see less of people trying to replace humans with language models and more of people trying to use language models to make humans jobs less frustrating.

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In all the companies I have worked at and have looked at such docs, unfortunately this doesn't really work because those internal documentation sites are statistically never up to date or even close. They are hilariously unclearly written or out of date.

As for relying on the code base, that is good for code, although not for onboarding/deployment/operations/monitoring/troubleshooting that have manual steps.

^this, but many non-code documents with manual steps can also be kept up-to-date as long as there is a way (a) relate it back to the codebase or another source of truth (b) detect conflicts (when someone says something in contradiction to an existing document)

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We connect with slack/notion/code/etc so that you can do the following:

1. Ask questions about how your code/product works 2. Generate release notes instantly 3. Auto update your documentation when your code changes

We primarily rely on the codebase since it is never out of date

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