Accelerating the Project Familiarization Process with AI Q&A Agents
Specific solutions to the problem of newcomers being slow to catch on:
- Knowledge Quiz System: Provide accurate answers based on the project knowledge graph and quickly answer all kinds of questions from newcomers.
- Project Navigation Functions: Visualize the project structure with commands such as "Show dependencies".
- workflow::
- Enabling the "Codebase Q&A Agent" Agent
- Newcomers type "how to set up development environment" to get the environment configuration guide.
- Query specific function descriptions such as "what does the payment module do".
- Use "show architecture" to view the project architecture.
Additional Recommendations:
- Organize a list of frequently asked questions as sample prompts
- Establishment of a project-specific glossary of terms
- Combining test cases as a functional use case
This method has been shown to reduce newcomer productivity improvement time from 2-4 weeks to 3-5 days.
This answer comes from the articlePotpie AI: An AI engineering assistant for quickly creating proprietary code basesThe































