Code wikis are documentation theater as a service (opens in new tab)

Code Wiki, a new AI tool by Google, claims to generate a complete set of docs, including diagrams, from code repos. The landing page goes as far as saying “Stop documenting. No more stale docs. Ever”, a claim that made me stagger and reach for the nearest chair. That these tools are laughably bad isn’t reassuring; their emergence hints at a deeper and more unsettling cultural problem.