How to Improve Your Documentation with AI (CircleCI Chunk Tutorial)

AI coding assistants help you ship features fast, but documentation almost never keeps up. In this Ship Smarter session, we'll show you how CircleCI's Chunk autonomous CI/CD agent automatically analyzes your codebase, identifies documentation gaps, and opens a pull request with improvements. No manual writing required. In this video: -Why AI-assisted development makes documentation debt worse -How Chunk works at the CI/CD layer to see your whole codebase at once -Setting up Chunk on your CircleCI project in minutes -Running the "Improve Documentation" preset and reviewing the results -Writing targeted prompts for specific modules, READMEs, and audiences Demo repo: https://circle.ci/4dirM79 Quick start guide: https://circle.ci/4cTrKCe Tutorial: https://circle.ci/4d4AoN2 Try Chunk: https://circle.ci/42kUDkz Get started with CircleCI: https://circle.ci/4upWSio - 00:00 Why documentation always falls behind 01:13 What we're building today 01:20 Setup: Fork the demo repo 02:19 Connect your repo to CircleCI 04:06 Enable Chunk and select your AI model 04:54 Running the Improve Documentation preset 06:05 Reviewing Chunk's output 07:38 Reviewing the PR on GitHub 08:28 Writing more targeted prompts 09:02 Chunk + MCP server: the bigger picture 09:27 Wrap up + next steps