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> You mention you've done work for public transit - well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeab
by FeteCommuniste 9mo ago
> You mention you've done work for public transit - well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it. Firing the technical writer however has an immediate and quantifiable effect on the budget.
Exactly. If the AI-made documentation is only 50% of the quality but can be produced for 10% of the price, well, we all know what the "smart" business move is.
- marcosdumay 9mo ago> If the AI-made documentation is only 50% of the quality AI-made documentation has 0% of the quality. As the OP pointed, AI can only document things that somebody already wrote down. That's no documentation at all.
- casey2 9mo agoI'd take AI generated slop reviewed by the person who created the system over tech writer babble any day of the week. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was reading about some interesting but flawed system only to discover later that they were talking about MY OWN SOFTWARE!? (only half-joking here)
- Calazon 9mo agoMost documentation is documenting things that somebody already wrote down in a different form. The quality of AI-made documentation may be poor, but calling it 0% is just silly.
- weirdmantis69 9mo agoAI can often synthesis information out of for example, code and screenshots and navigate a website. It could effectively document the current state of a given web application for example whereas most companies have 0 documentation whatsoever.