thecoffeejesus t1_jecp4hn wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:23 AM

It already has - mine. Technical documentation is no longer required at my former workplace

mutantbeings t1_jedes2l wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:09 AM

Frankly I would find that terrifying if I had to use that documentation and I knew it was produced by an AI. I hope its not something serious like safety documentation ... LLM's are horribly convincing liars...

sideways t1_jed6r0u wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:48 AM

Wow. Technical writing was an area that I can close to seriously going into as a profession. Crazy to see it made near redundant whole cloth.

EdWilkins65 t1_jeenx64 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:48 PM

How does AI make technical documentation at your workplace?

LosingID_583 t1_jefbqwh wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:26 PM

It can analyze software to find features (for example, in the code it can find output functions, input flags, etc...), and output documentation much like how you can ask chatgpt to summarize a book.

EdWilkins65 t1_jefjs4n wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:18 PM

I guess technical writers should turn to hardware documentation, then. At least until AI can do that too lmao

dnadude t1_jefsugy wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:18 PM

Have you tried letting ChatGPT comment your code. I don't really make comments anymore because it can summarize what the code does more concisely and type it quicker than I can. I haven't tried it with anything terribly complex but it's already a huge time saver there.