Code wikis are documentation theater as a service
I just hope Google doesn't kill this one as quickly as they did Stadia etc.
What about DeepWiki has been untrustworthy?
Right off the bat, I'm really excited about how it talks about the "optimizing compiller," and how these pieces go from modules that do something to 'infrastructure.'
If this is a flagship demo, it doesn't fill me with hope about the project.
Instead, I started reading through one of their highlighted examples --- the Go repo (https://codewiki.google/github.com/golang/go). This might be the worst high level overview of Go and its repo I've read. Mostly accurate but unhelpfully verbose, spending lots of words on trivia, and not at all making a compelling pitch for Go as a language or toolchain, how to use it, or how to work on it.
even the front diagram is completely contentless ("guides usage", "influences"?)
and you can't even link it
It just doesn't seem to be worth the effort though. I see myself using something like this for ~30 minutes to so I don't feel lost when getting started. After that it becomes significantly less useful.
Also, the video wasn't particularly helpful and if I have to here an AI voice say how fantastic something is again, Im going to unplug it (jk future overlords).
Releasing a product like DeepWiki is the first step towards creating a data flywheel that yields useful information.
Fuck everyone associated with this.
Signed, someone who remembers when we tried to convince the media that "hackers" were the ones who built novel stuff and innocently probed networks to understand them and the people who breached systems maliciously or for personal gain should be called "crackers." And someone who watched the GNU people be very upset for decades about linux not being called "GNU/Linux."
ChrisArchitect•2mo ago