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This article is aimed at non-technical writers of documentation.

A decade ago 'docs like code' was an exciting invitation to work alongside developers, adopt their practices, and get closer to how the sausage was being made.

Today anything 'like code', but particularly prose, is right in the crosshairs of AI.

While people who can leverage AI are a bigger threat to your job than AI alone, in this case those people are developers. When developers, who hold all of the context of software functionality in their head, can interact with an LLM to draft docs, test them against validation and style rules, and publish them, they just will.