Ask HN: Is documentation a solved problem or are we all just pretending?

3 points by hariprasadr 4mo ago ↗ HN

Every company I've worked at has a Confluence or Notion that's 60% outdated.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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wagneroptics 4mo ago ↗

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.