Have you tried to use AI for documentation? It’s pretty shit.
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.
Have you tried to use AI for <thing>? It’s pretty shit.
Translation, proofreading, summarizing, brainstorming, boilerplate code, protein folding…
protein folding
We’re at the point where, due to how b2c tech services work, I think a lot of people think AI === LLM
How about this:
Humans (or humans assisted by AI) write documentation
Users (devs included) can either choose to read the manual the old fashioned way or utilize it like a sort of swagger api documentation to give- Information to a question (How to do x)
- Provide a general example
- (Assuming it’s used with an IDE or has information about the project) Provide a personalized example on the implementation.
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.
