others have commented some good comments on the documentation aspect. I wish to talk more about incentives instead. I will set aside the discussion of if the AI writing docs and people caring about AI written docs.

> He and I can bang out tons of it in minutes that would have taken months before

Pre-AI, you had some work X and you were given some salary Y and you did the work in time T, now you are expected to 10-100 times X work in time T but given the same salary Y

People are worrying about their salaries and future and some people especially within Silicon valley are worried for whats to come next with AI datacenters raising electricity prices and this fear of permanent underclass and job insecurity and a terrible job market with layoffs partially because of AI spending.

If it feels stressful, its because it probably is. I imagine that some people as such might feel that reading the very same AI documentation with the same passion/care is hard.

So yes, AI has a long uphill battle in winning over the average Joe because everything in its current implementation is actively trying to screw average Joe if we think about it

but it differs depending on your incentives on your current time. In your current job, you are the one writing these AI docs in minutes, now imagine spending hours reading those very same AI docs with all the things that I have mentioned, perhaps I hope you understand why it might be more frustrating.

(also when I mean average Joe I would consider software engineer folks like us to be the one more effected than even other professions so we are the average Joe I am talking about. Its not all gloom and doom though and the average joe is split between liking/disliking it and having a nuanced opinion in the middle)