Maybe once we figure out how to reliably prevent hallucination, LLMs can displace the most banal docs. As far as long-form tutorials, information architecture,

Maybe once we figure out how to reliably prevent hallucination, LLMs can displace the most banal docs. As far as long-form tutorials, information architecture, and concept doc? I'm not concerned about the future of technical writing for at least a couple of decades. LLMs write the kind of inflated, roundabout garden path sentences that I used to write in middle school to pad page counts. Tons of unnecessary adjectives and redundant sentences. It's hard to ask a question to an LLM and end up with a statement that doesn't contain a contradiction. Maybe crappy technical writing will end up displaced. But great documentation is a lot more than just spewing words and facts on a page. You have to think about niche edge cases, API design, and higher levels of abstraction. Not to mention figure out how to actually use a new interface that, more often than not, doesn't match the original design spec in subtle ways. Anyone who replaces technical writers with LLMs in the next couple of years will reap more than their share of developer discontent when the docs literally lie to them.