# Reflections on AI Explain: A postmortem

DevFeed: [Reflections on AI Explain: A postmortem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reflections-on-ai-explain-a-postmortem-4015.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/ai-explain-postmortem/>)

Author: mdn-team

Published: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [MDN Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mdn-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post.md>)

## AI overview

MDN's postmortem explains why it paused AI Explain after community feedback. The feature used GPT-3.5 experiments to help readers understand documentation and embedded code examples, especially newer developers.

## Source excerpt

We recently launched a feature called AI Explain, but we have rolled this back for now. In this post, we look into the story behind AI Explain: its development, launch, and the reasons that led us to press the pause button.