alt Hacker News> You mention you've done work for public transit - well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it. Firing the technical writer however has an immediate and quantifiable effect on the budget.
Exactly. If the AI-made documentation is only 50% of the quality but can be produced for 10% of the price, well, we all know what the "smart" business move is.
> If the AI-made documentation is only 50% of the quality
AI-made documentation has 0% of the quality.
As the OP pointed, AI can only document things that somebody already wrote down. That's no documentation at all.