Hello,
I used to use Ask Discourse occasionally for development, but lately I’ve found it to be significantly less effective in its responses. Previously, I was limited in the number of questions/answers, but the responses were relevant. Now that I have unlimited access, I’m getting stuck in loops with the answers. Have there been any changes to Ask Discourse’s AI?
Oh, interesting.
We recently changed it to our new local hosted model DeepSeek v4 flash.
We’ll do a quick check and get back to you.
Yes, given that we built Ask Discourse for general purpose Discourse troubleshooting, we changed the model to an open weights one hosted by us that can deliver faster answers while grounded to our documentation at Meta.
Ask wasn’t built with development in mind, for those I recommend using a purpose built harness, with local access to the full development environment, to properly ground and do Discourse work. We use all the popular coding harnesses and even provide a nice way to get started with Using dv (Discourse Vibe) .
Ah, I find that really a pity, even though ask discourse wasn’t originally intended for that; it helped me tremendously with accurate answers. Using dv is too restrictive for me since I develop very little, only occasionally, so I’ll need to find another solution. But I understand the use of dv for developers.