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by robeym 5 days ago
AI impacts so much. So many white collar chores just get obliterated with AI. Legal & regulatory docs, production planning, sales materials, etc. Just yesterday I used AI to generate 235 new system docs based on our codebase, and added automated .md -> html publishing so final drafts go straight to the website. This work that would've taken a contractor 1-2 weeks got done in a day, by me, someone who definitely isn't a technical writer.

When the person who knows what's needed can handle the technical execution themselves, you no longer need that second person.

I certainly wouldn't say you need "more humans"

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> Just yesterday I used AI to generate 235 new system docs based on our codebase

For who? Will it ever be read? I’m bias on good documentation and I think AI is better at publishing documents for machines, for now.

For PAX ERP. It'll be read by both humans and llms. "Paxy AI" will be the primary reader, which is the AI support tool in the system. When users ask it a question about how to do something, it'll answer based on the technical docs.