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Use AI to onboard new team members to your codebase

Use AI to onboard new team members to your codebase

From the course: Coding Smarter with JetBrains AI Assistant

Use AI to onboard new team members to your codebase

- [Instructor] Traditional code onboarding is painful for both the new hire and the existing team. New developers often spend their first few weeks just trying to understand what the code does, let alone contribute to it. They're drowning in documentation that's either outdated or doesn't exist, and other developers are constantly interrupted with questions like, what does this method do? Or Why was this implemented this way? This is especially challenging in enterprise applications where you might have hundreds of classes and business logic that's been evolving for years. The cognitive load can be overwhelming, but AI can help transform this process from weeks of confusion into a few days of productive learning. As a new hire, you can use many of the AI assistant features to learn about the code base you're working in. One way is to use AI to get an overview of the code base. Here I have a Spring Boot financial trading platform. Instead of spending hours reading through mini classes…

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