Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete
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Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete
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#2already are
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#3If we can also apply this to network engineers, that would be awesome. No more waiting 2 weeks for a firewall rule. But how many places actually have tech writers these days.. mostly devs will be asked to write documenation.
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#4The problem is that AI generated content always has the same structure and grammatical style, and you absolutely still need to guide it in order to make good content.
Tech writers will become more productive, not obsolete.
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#5MS started aggressively using AI to generate their documentation a year or two ago. It did not make things better at all, and in fact quite the contrary. Awkwardly verbose wording, contradictory sentences in different paragraphs of the same article, etc. That said, they were already on a trajectory of decline.
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#6The problem is that AI generated content always has the same structure and grammatical style, and you absolutely still need to guide it in order to make good content. Tech writers will become more productive, not obsolete.
But why not have the developer that wrote the code guide the AI to generate the content? They know the code best.
Actually at this rate, developers won't be writing code anyways but they're still in a better position to guide the AI.
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#7If we can also apply this to network engineers, that would be awesome. No more waiting 2 weeks for a firewall rule. But how many places actually have tech writers these days.. mostly devs will be asked to write documenation.
You guys had tech writers? I write everything myself—from the code to the reports to the policies to the deployment scripts. Well at least I also get to write the firewall rules myself! Sigh...
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#8MS started aggressively using AI to generate their documentation a year or two ago. It did not make things better at all, and in fact quite the contrary. Awkwardly verbose wording, contradictory sentences in different paragraphs of the same article, etc. That said, they were already on a trajectory of decline.
You should see the way Claude Code generates documentation. It's pretty good.
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#9AI marketing slop.
> This isn't a minor efficiency gain. It's a fundamental shift
> This isn't theoretical. It works today.
> The documentation stays accurate because it's generated from real code, not someone's memory of how things used to work.
Yes, because Claude never hallucinates.
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#10MS started aggressively using AI to generate their documentation a year or two ago. It did not make things better at all, and in fact quite the contrary. Awkwardly verbose wording, contradictory sentences in different paragraphs of the same article, etc. That said, they were already on a trajectory of decline.
You should see the way Claude Code generates documentation. It's pretty good.
I have and it isn't. The YMMV with LLMs isn't a great place to be.