On: DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

[tacker2000]

The Elkjs project uses this and im not really sure i like it. [1]

Its a bit hard to find stuff. I was looking to find the structure of the main configuration json object and couldnt find it in the deepwiki.

I found it on the “non ai created” doc page of the main Elk project[2] (Elkjs is a JS implementation of Elk)

But yes this is of course just one data point.

[1]https://deepwiki.com/kieler/elkjs/5-usage-guide

[2]https://eclipse.dev/elk/documentation/tooldevelopers/graphda...

[Nullabillity → tacker2000]

"Uses it" sounds strong.. I don't see any link to it from https://github.com/kieler/elkjs?

Annoyingly, anyone can just.. request a deepwiki for any GitHub repo. That one exists doesn't mean that it's endorsed or reviewed by the project.

They just kind of barged in, welcome or not. Just another SEO slop-spammer.

[tacker2000 → Nullabillity]

Hmm you are right, there is no direct link.

I seem to have found it via a google search.

So in the end people will believe that these are the official docs…

[debugnik → Nullabillity]

A couple of years ago the OCaml and Julia languages already had to deal with a content farm that created wikis for them, filled them with LLM-generated, blatantly wrong or stupidly low quality content, and SEOed its way above actual learning materials. Cue in the newbies to these languages being incredibly confused.

This at least tries to generate the text out of the actual project, but I'm pessimistic and think it'll cause similar confusion.