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DN Dave Nunez Dave Nunez On MLOps.community

“With agents, once you have this baseline, like at Stripe, we took 500,000 docs, got them down to like 5,000 we actually cared about. At the time, we had people keeping things up to date, and it was terrible, impossible. Now you get it down to those 5,000 docs, that's very doable for an agent to keep in sync with the code base. It's not going to be perfect, but you're going to be like 90% of the way there.”

MLOps.community · AI Builders · November 2026

“With agents, once you have this baseline, like at Stripe, we took 500,000 docs, got them down to like 5,000 we actually cared about. At the time, we had people keeping things up to date, and it was terrible, impossible. Now you get it down to those 5,000 docs, that's very doable for an agent to keep in sync with the code base. It's not going to be perfect, but you're going to be like 90% of the way there.” — Dave Nunez, MLOps.community

Context

Nunez was explaining that most internal documentation is junk and has to be cleaned out before agents can use it. Shrinking the doc set to what is worth maintaining is what makes agent-maintained docs feasible.

Transcript

MLOps.community Around 10:52 into the episode
Dave Nunez

…we log things and you just need a timestamp. It's funny how people just run in front of Waymo's because they know the Waymo will start. Yeah, you get like cut off because this is like the nicest driver around. So the cars just go around, people run in front, they know it's safe. They don't care.

Demetrios Brinkmann

Stop sign. It's my right of way always. You're not going to get flipped off by the Waymo.

Dave Nunez

I think before we get to the cool shit, like decision records are incredible. And I love, and I'm telling everybody, just write stuff down with a timestamp. You don't need to perfect it or make it like beautiful. You can do that later. If you write it down and keep it in chronological order, you can do stuff with that later. I'm not even, I think internally people just have to clean up their junk. They don't realize that 95 probably, and this has proved out true from doing this exercise at Uber and Stripe and then a bunch of clients when I was advising, probably like one to two percent of the stuff you have is actually useful. 98, 95%, let's be generous, is copies of docs, outdated docs for deprecated features. It's stubs, like just scratch pads. And all of these are Google Docs, they're Notion docs. Like whether people still read them, they're in the context for the agents and they're in your search. So when you go search and they're bloating it, and then a lot of these search tools provide weight for age. So the older it is, the more, I remember we were working with this customer that had like 8,000 employees. And the first thing Internal Docs when I search, they were using Notion to…

Demetrios Brinkmann

I can't tell you how many docs I don't delete because I'm like, there's probably one sentence in there that's actually valuable. Yeah. And I know that it's not important, but that one sentence potentially could have value in the future so that I am too scared to delete it.

Dave Nunez

Yeah, everybody has that. And you remember, oh, that took me so long to create. Like, I don't want to. It's like cleaning out your garage, but it feels so, so good to delete stuff because right when you delete it, you never think about it again. You're not like, and if it was important, who knows?…

Demetrios Brinkmann

even when Internal Docs think about it, because of that search problem, I can't find

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