[x2tyfi]

Undoubtedly a big opportunity area for LLMs. I’ve recently observed engineers deliver LLM-generated (or iterated) docs that blow away any technical writing they had done in the past.

Network Engineering design docs can be somewhat formulaic structurally, making the LLMs job simpler. I imagine in the near future we’ll just ask them to follow doc templates or reference other designs within a RAG system to ensure there aren’t gaps in the doc, etc.

[nrclark]

I'm not sure about that. For whatever reason, I've noticed that my brain has a hard time holding onto ideas from LLM-written documentation. Maybe because LLMs generate the mathematically lowest-energy thing that they can.

I'd take poor grammar and interesting ideas over clear grammar devoid of real content any day of the week.

[CharlesW]

Assuming that your ability to remember the content isn't a result of differences in the substance of the content, in my experience the stylistic issue can be addressed with thoughtful training/prompting and lots of Do/Don't examples.

It helps if your technical writers already adhere to a voice/tone guide, which can be pretty easily adapted/extended for automated documentation generation. If one doesn't exist, you'll definitely want to create that first. Some good examples:

Google: https://developers.google.com/style

IBM: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780132101301/samplep...

Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/

Red Hat: https://stylepedia.net/style/

[x2tyfi]

That’s understandable - the rule of “garbage in, garbage out” certainly still applies. I find that many engineers are capable of gathering the right requirements and content, but struggle with the polish/finish that makes docs more consumable - where LLMs can shine.

[scrubs]

>Undoubtedly a big opportunity area for LLMs

Are you kidding me? This is the laziest, campiest, knee-jerk point I've run into in quite sometime.

I expect, as my co-workers expect of me, to learn and improve. Writing is a core part of engineering, and management.

I'd have some choice words for my co-worker (or vice-versa) if we just gave up and "ChatGpt'd our way to the top."

[beej71]

My goal is to be better than the LLM. :) As of now, it's a pretty low bar, I think.