> 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.

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marcosdumay 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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.

	▲	Calazon 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most 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.
	▲	casey2 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'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)