> It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it.

Which is true, in a way, the data put down as documentation can now be calculated in seconds, and documentation is just a cache.

Yeah, if a human didn't write it, I might as well have generated it myself. And it'll be better tailored to the information I'm seeking.

I actually still REALLY value the human authorship though. Not for any sweat and blood nostalgia. I find MY generated docs still have lots of little errors, sometimes pretty critical even, which I can only recognize when I have the expertise and comb through carefully on edit.

The hand written author's name was a stronger guarantee that those wouldn't exist (as much), because you could trust in their expertise, and that they had to put down every word. It's much easier to miss the slop on edit and review than in draft, in my experience.

The truth is the documentation never had any value.