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Yeah, I'll gladly AI-gen code, but I still write docs by hand. Have yet to see one good AI generated doc, they're all garbage.
by morshu9001 11mo ago
Yeah, I'll gladly AI-gen code, but I still write docs by hand. Have yet to see one good AI generated doc, they're all garbage.
- dr_dshiv 11mo agoAgree. I also wonder whether this helps account for why some people get great value from AI and some terrible value.
- morshu9001 11mo agoIt can also be bad if you're writing code in a tech island, with an abysmal codebase, or with weak AI tooling
- toenail 11mo agoThe AI docs are good enough for AIs, to throw them at agents without previous context.
- buu700 11mo agoIncidentally, I just spent some time yesterday with Gemini and Grok writing a first draft of docs for a complex codebase. The end result is far more useful and complete than anything I could have possibly produced without AI in the same amount of time, and I didn't even have to learn Mermaid syntax to fill the docs with helpful visual aids. Of course it's a collaborative process — you can't just tell it to document the code with no other information and expect it to one-shot exactly what you wanted — but I find that documentation is actually a major strength of LLMs.
- morshu9001 11mo agoThat use case works, I meant writing designs