Dosu was recently featured in GitHub’s new “Awesome Continuous AI” list, both in the Continuous Triage and Continuous Documentation sections. Given that, we thought it’d be a good occasion to talk about how Dosu embodies the idea of Continuous AI and why we’re really bullish on the concept.
What is Continuous AI?
According to GitHub, Continuous AI is any use of automated AI to support software collaboration on any platform. Basically, they’re riffing on the well-understood development concept of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and it’s all about how AI can be used to automate workflows.
Dosu’s vision is to couple written knowledge with code to generate easy to understand documentation that evolves with your code, and to help answer questions other stakeholders ask. Importantly this frees up time to build, time which previously would have been taken up by maintaining documentation and repetitively answering questions. This is a massive productivity unlock for any company.
Dosu does Continuous Triage
From inception, Dosu was built to continuously triage by monitoring projects and engaging with users opening issues, to answer questions and help find resolutions. Dosu is already trusted by thousands of OSS project maintainers, as it was the first piece of Dosu that we built. That’s led to comments like these from excited, and surprised, OSS maintainers:
We've had a lot of feedback pointing out just how restorative it is for maintainers to wake up to issues already closed because Dosu correctly addressed issues raised by contributors. It’s indeed a game changer.
Dosu does Continuous Documentation
The heart of Dosu is in continuous documentation generation and maintenance. Imagine not having to worry about documenting new features or breaking changes, but being able to trust that it is happening automatically in the background. That’s the promise of Dosu. Right now Dosu can suggest documentation and users can one click generate it in markdown. Soon you’ll be able to turn on automation and have it directly write to the docs.
What's next
Whether the concept Continuous AI gets picked up or not, what it describes is certainly where things are quickly headed, and we’re excited to be at the leading edge of building this new reality in a way the entire team is proud to be leveraging AI: to assist human engineers by automating repetitive tasks that were previously impossible to automate due to the nuances involved.
If you haven’t tried Dosu yet for your internal knowledge base or OSS project, we’d like to invite you to check it out for yourself at https://app.dosu.dev, and tell us what you think of it on Discord once you - we love feedback!