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Could be worse. At least it's documented
To me the biggest problem, that AI might solve is documentation.
Have you tried to use AI for documentation? It's pretty shit.
Translation, proofreading, summarizing, brainstorming, boilerplate code, protein folding...
We’re at the point where, due to how b2c tech services work, I think a lot of people think AI === LLM
I've used AI to give me a good enough guess that I know the right keywords to search for too find the real documentation.
I’ve had pretty good experience with using AI to find what I’m looking for in documentation, especially if the docs are in context
I think they mean having an AI read code and then write documentation for it. Not having an AI read documentation.
How about this:
Humans (or humans assisted by AI) write documentation
Users (devs includes) can either choose to read the manual the old fashioned way or utilize it like a sort of swagger api documentation to give