What The Diff

About What The Diff

What is What The Diff?

What The Diff is an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance the pull request (PR) process. It automates the writing of PR descriptions, generates changelogs, delivers weekly progress reports, and even supports inline AI-based code refactoring, helping development teams work faster and keep stakeholders informed.

Why Developers Trust What The Diff

Pull requests are vital to every development workflow. What The Diff ensures they are clear, accessible, and efficient, saving developers valuable time while improving communication with technical and non-technical audiences alike.

How What The Diff Works

Automated Pull Request Descriptions

When a pull request is created, What The Diff fetches the diff through GitHub or GitLab APIs and generates a clean, easy-to-understand description in plain English—or other supported languages—without storing your code.

Streamlined Summaries and Notifications

The platform also sends simplified, translated summaries to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring everyone stays updated without diving into complex technical details.

Key Features of What The Diff

Beautiful Changelogs and API Access

Create public-facing changelogs effortlessly or consume changelog data via a JSON API for internal tracking, helping teams and users stay aligned on project updates.

Inline AI Refactoring Assistance

Instead of just leaving comments during code reviews, developers can leverage What The Diff’s AI to suggest actual refactoring solutions, improving code quality instantly.

Weekly Progress Reports

Teams receive a digest of all PR activity from the past week, helping leaders and team members keep track of development progress at a glance.

Benefits of Using What The Diff

Faster, Clearer Code Reviews

By automating descriptive PR writing and suggesting refactoring improvements, What The Diff speeds up the review cycle and minimizes misunderstandings between developers.

Better Communication with Stakeholders

Through simplified summaries and changelogs, non-technical team members can easily stay informed, fostering better collaboration across departments.

Best Use Cases for What The Diff

Software Development Teams

Engineering teams use What The Diff to automate and improve the pull request review process, reducing time spent writing PR descriptions and improving development velocity.

Agile Product Management

Product managers and non-technical stakeholders benefit from clear, understandable updates about code changes and project progress without getting bogged down by technical jargon.