Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right

Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.

The preview has documentation for hundreds of open source projects. Coming soon is an extension to Gemini CLI, Google's AI agent, that will run on internal repositories, though there is no word yet about pricing.

The official post has only brief details of how Code Wiki works, leaving it to developers to explore the preview version to figure out what it can do.

A Hacker News comment from Omar Shams, founder of Mutable.ai, states that Code Wiki is a rebuild of a previous project called Auto Wiki, which his company developed before it was acquired by Google.

Code Wiki is focused on documenting the code in a repository, which must not be confused with documenting the output of ...