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From Static Docs to Living Knowledge Graphs: Fixing Engineering Documentation
Most engineering teams treat documentation as a manual chore, leading to “knowledge silos” and grueling onboarding cycles.
The Code is No Longer the Source of Truth: Why Documentation is the New "Source...
In the age of autonomous AI agents, the adage "the code is the ultimate documentation" is dead. Agents don't read your implementat...
The Design Documentation No One Asks For (But Everyone Needs)
Designers often don't document the decisions they make. This can lead to decisions being made without understanding the real reaso...
Nurturing a Culture of Documentation
Documentation culture is about behavioral traits that technical writers practice every day based on set of beliefs and organizatio...
How to Make Engineering Knowledge Searchable (A Complete Guide)
The only way to solve the Context Tax is to treat your work artifacts and your code, your meetings, and your tickets are as living...
A Practical Framework for Consistent Repository Documentation
Even solo engineers, who once had a free pass, must now contend with the inconsistency of AI-generated documentation.
The Most Dangerous Person on Your Team is "Dave" (And He Just Quit)
Most AI-generated documentation is fluff. I built a prompt that forces the LLM to analyze the intent of the code.
An AI Crew for Automated Diagramming and Documentation
Cloud documentation is always outdated. Manual updates take 2-3 days per environment and are obsolete within weeks. Solution: AI a...
When Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality
There is no silver bullet, but there are 2 partially good approaches to address documentation drift: static checks and AI
The Painful Joy of Refusing Documentation
From AI hallucinations to debugging disasters, this essay explores the reasons why developers should stop fumbling around and star...
Asciidoc: When Markdown Just Isn't Cutting It
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2...
