I Built the AI Documentation Tool I Actually Wanted to Use
Every technical writer I know has the same complicated relationship with AI documentation tools. You try one. It generates fast, fluent, confidently structured output. You read it and immediately know something is wrong, but it takes a minute to place exactly what. The audience is off. The doc type does not match what the source material actually supports. There are three paragraphs explaining a concept the target reader already knows, and no explanation of the thing they actually need. The tool wrote well. It just wrote the wrong thing. ...