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Creating documentation

Creating documentation

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Creating documentation

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- [Instructor] Alright, well the last example that we're gonna take a look at here of something that AI tools can help you out with when writing code is writing documentation. Now it's no secret that writing documentation is not most developers' favorite thing to do. And the good news here is that AI is really, really good at it. So what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take this rather cryptic code, this would be a good candidate for a little bit of refactoring, of course, and we're gonna have Generative AI basically just create some good documentation for it. Now this is a question that I get a lot is how well does Generative AI actually understand code? Is it just looking at variable names and using that to infer what's going on or given something much more cryptic like this here, is it able to figure that out? Well, in my experience, Generative AI is usually really good at figuring out what's going on in the code…

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