I don't want AI writing creative content, but what about docs? - Skald Blog
You'll find all sorts of things I've written online, from various types of technical content ([1] [2] [3]) to travel pieces and even poems.
I'd never consider using AI to write this content, because my writing's for me. My primary goal with writing is expressing myself -- be it to structure my thoughts, to explore topics in more depth, or to simply get things off my chest.
Like many others, I worry about AI-generated content flooding our timelines, suppressing all the beautifully imperfect creative pieces other writers put out into the world.
But as a developer who's often been frustrated by poor and outdated documentation out there, I found myself thinking: I don't want AI to write content for me, but what about docs?
Personally, I take great pride in writing docs, and have driven a culture of active documentation in every organization I've worked in.
It gives me joy to have someone ask me a question on Slack only for me to link them to a doc that answers that question and their follow-up, while also covering background context which might teach the reader something interesting (though it kinda annoys me if they didn't search for it in the first place).
