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Completely agree. Explaining how systems work in plain english is much more valuable than just giving inputs and outputs of individual functions. We want to understand how a system and it's subsystems work independently and interdependently.

We're not there yet with Autodoc; there is still tons of work to do.

If you have't tried the demo, give it a shot. You might be surprised.

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Have you considered finding a way to instead write a text editor plugin that allows me to talk to a GPT and ask questions about a codebase? This would be a serious technology that moves beyond the in-code documentation paradigm.

This is exactly what autodoc does in your terminal. It wouldn't be hard to package it as a VSCode plugin.

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