Hey you,
Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore.
You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo the damage.
We live in a world where there is an AI that creates extensive documentation out of simple descriptions and there is another AI that reduces that extensive documentation back to something you can actually read. What is the purpose of this? Why are we paying the AI company twice to do unnecessary work?