Ask HN: Is documentation a solved problem or are we all just pretending?
Every company I've worked at has a Confluence or Notion that's 60% outdated. Decisions happen in Slack threads and Zoom calls and never make it anywhere permanent. New people onboard into a fiction.
We have AI that can write code, generate images, and pass the bar exam. But somehow "keep a document up to date" is still unsolved.
Am I wrong? Has anyone actually cracked this?
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AI is really good at organizing documentation, especially with well-defined rules. Having an AI documentation agent be part of the Slack threads may be the best way to keep things organized.
I haven't solved this, but I'm working on it.
Curious to know what you are working on.
Integration engineering in a heavily regulated field. Great people, but it's just very difficult anywhere to create, maintain, and test specifications through a development process. I love what AI can do in terms of enabling holistic coordination and troubleshooting. It does help a bunch if you can operate over many disciplines.