The Documentation Problem: How AI Changes Technical Writing
This is Part 6 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series, where we explore practical strategies for human-AI collaboration in technical work. Nobody likes writing documentation. I’ve never met a developer who wakes up excited to document their code. We know it’s important. We know future-us will be grateful. We still procrastinate until the last possible moment, then write the bare minimum. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s a rational response to incentives. Documentation takes time, provides no immediate feedback, and often becomes outdated before anyone reads it. The effort-to-reward ratio feels terrible. ...