DeepWiki

11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2025 by Silas Alberti · said 32 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 21, 2025
Disclosure
Alberti: DeepWiki auto-updates documentation for free repositories displaying its badge
“So we just decided, okay, how about we just detect whether you have the wiki batch and then we'll keep it updated for you.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 14:19 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025
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Silas Alberti: DeepWiki scaled infrastructure for tens of thousands of developers
“I think the particular thing that we had to make happen for DeepWiki was, like, scaling up the infra so we could support, like, tens of thousands of open source developers at the same time. And I think also just, like, Making it be, there's like no sign up req…”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 2:30 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alberti: DeepWiki compute spend may break $1M soon
“So we think we should be now at like the high, like tens of thousands of repos. So I guess you can like do the rough map. Like we might be approaching quite significant numbers of compute spend here. I mean maybe we'll like break the million soon.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 3:46 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025
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Silas Alberti: DeepWiki pairs AI codebase documentation with a research agent
“And I think it has like two components. It has the wiki itself, which is basically like AI generated Got documentation for any code base on GitHub, and then there's, like, the deep research agent that leverages both this, like, wiki, but also, like, any code f…”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 1:54 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alberti: 80% to 90% of DeepWiki users view pre-indexed popular repos
“So I would say, like, 80%, 90% of users just, like, check out one of the popular repos.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 5:13 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025
Disclosure
Silas Alberti: DeepWiki began as a free open-source side project
“I mean, it was supposed to be this like open source focus, like free site project almost, but it became bigger than expected.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 1:34 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Alberti: Wiki pages are a better abstraction than pure RAG for codebase search
“If you just do like pure, like rack on like such a big base code files, it'll just be like pretty bad at a certain point, you know, on a single code base. Sure. I can see it, but Tens of thousands of code bases. It's tougher. But I think actually the wiki page…”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 26:29 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Alberti: Folder structure graphs are poor representations of codebase architecture
“There are some, the simplest one is a folder structure graph, but unfortunately, it's, like, actually a pretty bad one because people sometimes just, you know, like, put all the components in this folder and all the servers in this folder.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 8:28 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alberti: DeepWiki experienced spikes of 2,000 indexing jobs queued
“Sometimes it's like random spikes. I don't know how they happen. Like 2000 indexing drops in the queue. Suddenly it was like the other day.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 11:35 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Alberti: Over 1,000 GitHub projects added DeepWiki badges to their repositories
“There was more than a thousand projects already had The like deep wiki batch, which I thought was like super awesome to see like way more than I expected.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 14:02 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
May 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Alberti: Small numbers of manually curated evals beat large eval sets
“I think usually like small numbers of very high quality evals are the way to go and like we curate them manually and make sure they're really good.”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 17:39 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
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