[polcia]

What do you think, technical writing should be included in the daily job of engineers, or is it ok if the company is hiring people with some low technical skills/experience in favor of some target-language-Bachelor-of-Arts students to do these tasks?

[therealdrag0]

I think it is an area of work that (given a large enough company) benefits from having dedicated owners. Engineers have too many other things pulling at their strings, whether it's deadlines or just code they 'rather' be working on.

Some devs will take interest to documentation but most wont. Most seem to just do a single mind-dump and call it good, no better than the college essay they got a C on. There's also real value in having someone own the organization of the writing.

[xaedes]

I am very happy with (technical writing) experts helping with their expertise. That is how I want culture to see their role.

Maybe a bit over-simplified: SW-Devs talk to the machines, Doc-writers talk to the people. If you can't make the machines understand what you want it to do, you fail. If you can't make the people understand what to do with your precious developed system, you fail.