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Urvisha Maniar
Urvisha Maniar

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Does AI Documentation Really Save Time? We Measured It.

Developers hate writing docs — not because they don’t care, but because it breaks flow.
We wanted to know exactly how much time it costs — and how much AI can actually save.

🧩 The Setup

We took three real codebases:

  • Frontend (React) – ~2,000 lines
  • Backend (Node.js) – ~3,500 lines
  • Python util scripts – ~1,200 lines

Each was documented manually and using Codedoc, our AI doc generator.

AI won’t replace your documentation style — but it will *handle the boring part

What used to be a weekend task now fits into a coffee break.

👉 Try it yourself at everdone.ai — the first 50 files are free.

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