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by rtkwe 38 days ago
There's two major types of documentation "why is this like this" documentation and then there's "here's the features of this library/tool" documentation. LLM stuff is fine for the latter as long as you screen it for hallucinations. Your right the former they can't really do because they don't have access to the reasoning but I've often found even the latter to be lacking in many teams.
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  > LLM stuff is fine for the latter as long as you screen it for hallucinations
that is such a productivity black-hole tho; at that point i might as well have written it myself
IMO that's down to how you personally feel about the two sides of the process. For me the initial writing is super tedious and I've never gotten great at the voice of technical documentation but checking it for errors and correcting that is easy.