Tech writers will become more productive, not obsolete.
Actually at this rate, developers won't be writing code anyways but they're still in a better position to guide the AI.
Nobody wants to be held more accountable with less control over the result.
The moment you tell the devs to focus on working with AI is the moment their guess is as good as anyone else's what the hell is going on. You're not going to squeeze more productivity this way.
Knowing the code and knowing how to make the code, or the interface to the code, comprehensible to another user, are different things. Just like with UIs, and the fact that an expert is not necessarily the best teacher.
Anyhow, the age of monumental feats of technical writing is past. Too expensive, and the subject is too volatile for the most part. Economics dictate that we'll have to deal with the cheapest possible docs. We already do.
> This isn't a minor efficiency gain. It's a fundamental shift
> This isn't theoretical. It works today.
> The documentation stays accurate because it's generated from real code, not someone's memory of how things used to work.
Yes, because Claude never hallucinates.
People want to interact with other humans.
Hotel doorman problem etc.
Uptrenda•1h ago