What The Diff

Description

What The Diff serves as an AI-powered code review assistant designed to streamline the pull request process for development teams. By integrating with platforms like GitHub and GitLab, it aims to make pull requests more accessible and understandable for everyone involved, regardless of their technical background.

The core functionality revolves around automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks associated with code reviews. This includes automatically generating descriptive comments for pull requests, summarizing complex changes into easily digestible notifications for non-technical stakeholders, and even assisting with minor code refactoring directly within the review interface. This allows developers to focus more on the substantive aspects of code quality rather than the administrative overhead.

Key features include automated PR descriptions, which leverage AI to explain code changes in plain English. Rich summary notifications provide simplified, translated summaries to keep stakeholders informed. The tool also facilitates the creation of beautiful changelogs, shareable publicly or consumable via a JSON API for internal use. Weekly progress reports offer a consolidated overview of all changes within a given week. A notable feature is inline AI refactoring, enabling developers to suggest and implement code improvements directly, rather than just leaving comments.

Fine-grained settings allow users to customize the assistant's behavior, such as skipping CI pull requests, delaying draft ones, and managing token consumption. The application uses the GitHub/Gitlab API to access code diffs and employs AI models to generate descriptions. It emphasizes privacy, stating that it does not store user code or train its AI models on customer data. The service supports nearly all programming languages, with the AI capable of explaining diffs in multiple languages.

What The Diff is targeted at software development teams, project managers, and anyone involved in the code review process who benefits from clearer communication and more efficient workflows. The value proposition lies in saving time, improving collaboration between technical and non-technical team members, and enhancing the overall quality and accessibility of code reviews.

What The Diff's Core Features

• Automated pull request descriptions

• Rich summary notifications for non-technical stakeholders

• Inline AI-assisted code refactoring

• Public changelog generation

• JSON API for changelog consumption

• Weekly progress reports

• Fine-grained settings for PR handling

• Support for multiple programming languages

• Multi-language diff explanations

• No code storage or AI training on customer code

How to use What The Diff?

1. 1

   Connect with GitHub or GitLab: Authorize What The Diff to access your repositories.

2. 2

   Create a Pull Request: Initiate a new pull request in your connected repository.

3. 3

   Review AI-Generated Descriptions: Examine the automatically generated PR description.

4. 4

   Utilize Summary Notifications: Share simplified summaries with non-technical team members.

5. 5

   Perform Inline Refactoring: Use AI suggestions to refactor minor code issues.

6. 6

   Configure Settings: Adjust preferences for PR handling and token usage.

7. 7

   Generate Changelogs: Share or consume changelog data as needed.

What The Diff's Use Cases

• Automate PR Descriptions
• Improve Stakeholder Communication
• Streamline Code Reviews
• Create Public Changelogs
• Internal Changelog API
• Track Weekly Progress
• Enhance Code Accessibility

FAQ from What The Diff

• What is What The Diff?

  What The Diff is an AI-powered app that reviews the diff of your pull requests and writes a descriptive comment about the changes in plain English.

• How does What The Diff work?

  Our application uses the GitHub/Gitlab API to get the diff of your pull request and then uses an AI model to generate a description of the changes. We don't store your code.

• Does What The Diff work with all programming languages?

  Yes, we support nearly all programming languages and the AI is able to explain the diff in plain English – or one of the other languages that we support.

• Do you store my code?

  We don't store your code nor does any of our 3rd party services. We only use the GitHub/Gitlab API to read the diff of your pull requests.

• Do you train your AI model with my code?

  We don't do that and couldn't do that if we wanted – because we don't store your code or diff of your pull request at all.

• Why do you need full access to my code?

  Unfortunately, there is no GitHub/Gitlab permission to only read the diff of a pull request. We need full access to your code to be able to read the diff.

• What happens if I run out of tokens?

  If you run out tokens, you can upgrade to a bigger plan or wait until your next billing cycle. We don't upgrade your plan automatically.

• Do unused tokens add up?

  Unused tokens do not roll over to the next month, so make sure to select the smallest plan and upgrade when needed. You can always downgrade to a smaller plan.

• How are pull request descriptions generated?

  The AI processes the git diff of your pull requests to generate a descriptive comment in plain English.

• What are tokens in the context of What The Diff?

  Tokens are used to process the git diff of your pull requests to generate a descriptive comment. Big diffs require more tokens for processing.