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Create user-friendly README files

Create user-friendly README files

- [Instructor] A good README is the difference between a project that gets adopted and one that gets ignored. It's your project's first impression. The JetBrains AI assistant can analyze your code base and generate documentation that would normally take hours to write manually. Let's take a look at how we can use it. Here we have a task management API that needs documenting. Let's create a README markdown file for our assistant to use. Let's ask Junie to write the README. Our README is complete. If we click the image, we can also see how it'll render. First, Junie created a table of contents. This allows us to navigate throughout the file. And this isn't just generic boilerplate. The AI actually looked at our spring boot configuration and our controller endpoints to create specific and accurate documentation. You'll still want to review each piece the AI generates because it might miss some project specific details or make assumptions about your deployment environment. From here, you…

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