recently I gave AI a task to configure a software and the software didn't have any docs of how it works only the source code. the agent went through all the files and generated a summary of how it works and why it's not working for my particular scenario and suggested edits to my docker-compose.yml file. I couldn't believe it since the bug was very hard to find and it used headless firefox to find why it wasn't working.

made me realize do we still need documentation of how a software work when a AI can easily explain it?

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I think the effect you're seeing is that different people have different levels of "good enough", and also they work in different domains where AI became good enough at different times. E.g. for one-off web page design it's been good enough for a long time.

I never said this for earlier models, because they did suck for things like Rust and SystemVerilog. Now they don't.

I'd share some things I've vibe coded that work basically perfectly but they're linked to me real name, but you could have a look at the Mold linker which was recently vibe-ported to Rust.

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