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by afro88 225 days ago
Do we need this, when we have tools like Claude Code, Codex etc that you can talk to about the codebase they are started in?
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Agreed, nice idea in theory. But as a codebase owner I’d rather build tailored markdown files with a CLI agent to publish as my docs. And as a codebase consumer I probably only care about a codebase if I’m modifying or running it, which means a CLI agent makes the most sense and I can ask questions/generate .md files as we go.
> codebase they are started in

what about the dependencies? you could just clone them as well (which is what I do occasionally), but deepwiki is faster (for indexed repos) and free