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You'd think that OpenAI, by now, had technical writers on payroll. Well, according to LinkedIn, they don't. It's not that surprising, then, that their documenta
by remoquete 2y ago
You'd think that OpenAI, by now, had technical writers on payroll. Well, according to LinkedIn, they don't. It's not that surprising, then, that their documentation is in such a sorry state. Why they haven't hired specialized roles for documentation is beyond me; they either think they're irrelevant, or they ruthlessly prioritize growth over docs. Whatever the reason, they're hurting themselves.
- gryfft 2y agoHiring technical writers would be admitting to human supremacy in the technical writing space. Better optics to use GPT-generated docs regardless of impact to engineers and users.
- smnrchrds 2y agoLike Google and customer support?
- sadeshmukh 2y agoTheir docs aren't GPT-generated though - at least, that's what I think
- simonw 2y agoOpenAI's documentation is improving a bit now, but they're currently being left in the dust by Anthropic. The Anthropic prompting guide is genuinely the best I've seen anywhere: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...