Technical Writing in the AI Era

The author argues that while AI is useful for research and gathering content, technical documents meant for human readers—such as RFCs and RCAs—should still be written by humans, because AI-generated documents are bloated, inconsistent in terminology, and lack awareness of the reader's flow. He notes that auto-generated API documentation is now largely redundant since AI can read source code or OpenAPI specs directly, and that high-quality human-written documents matter more than ever as teams ship more code.