a simple tool that could save you lots of time

Published: 6/23/2025

When you encounter a problem and you can’t find any solution on Stack Overflow, you know you are screwed.

It means you can’t just copy and paste and call it a day. And AI agents, who also steal solutions from Stack Overflow, will most certainly hallucinate.

It means that you actually have to read the documentation, whoops…

Documentations are written by developers who don’t want to write documentation. Like you and I, they just want to code. But they have to do it because their boss asked for it. So, many documentation sucks. (the worst I have ever read is monaco edior’s doc. I’m better off reading the type declaration files than reading their official docs.)

Recently, I wanted to add a blog to animecoders.com (yes, another blog built with the hottest technologies that nobody reads.)

I had to use a third-party library to manage the blogs.

The setup was really smooth. I basically copied and pasted the code from the setup process, and it works out of the box. I was really happy with it.

Until I tried to add images to the blogs.

I tried to Google it…

read articles from some personal blogs from developers…

And turn to AI, which gave a seemingly really solid answer.

But none of them worked.

It means that I have to read the docs, yikes.

The docs were not the worst, but I struggled to find exactly how to solve my problem. I read through several sections that seem related, but still can’t find the solution.

Just before I went crazy, I found something.

In most docs, there’s a tiny search box that allows you to search for relevant information.

To use it, you have to know the docs pretty well to look up the specific piece of info. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s difficult to find the section that you want.

Below the search box, I saw, “ask AI about how to…”

That seems interesting, let’s try that.

I thought it wouldn’t work… but it gave me the exact solution I’m looking for!

The reason why it works so well is that the AI knows the documentation inside out, and it gets information strictly from the documentation, which makes the solution much more reliable.

A rare W for AI tools.

nice

So, try the AI search in Docs if you see it. It could save you quite a lot of time.

Fee from Anime Coders