Is there an AI for explaining a codebase to me?
YES · it exists, here's the best oneTens of thousands of popular open-source repos already have auto-generated wikis, complete with architecture diagrams, and any agentic tool will ingest yours and answer 'where does auth actually happen' in seconds. It is the fastest way to onboard onto code nobody documented, private repos included.
the catchIt explains what the code does; the person who knew why quit in 2019.
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