The biggest problem we face right now is that the large majority of people are terrible writers and can't recognize why this is awful. It really felt like the moment before chatgpt arrived we were coming into a new world where the craft of writing was surging in popularity and making a difference. That all feels lost.

This kind of post makes me have hope.

> I’ve tried it on one of my pet projects and it produced an entire wiki full of dev docs

Did it? No, it didn't. "Wiki" is not a synonym for "project documentation". (You could set up a wiki to manage the documentation for your project. But that's not what any of these things are about.)

These aren't wikis.

    brickLock: The lock of the brick.
    brickDrink: The drink of the brick.
    brickWink: The wink of the brick. 

My role as a writer is then to (1) extract net-new information out of the team, (2) figure out how all of that new info fits together, (3) figure out the implications of that info for readers/users, and then (4) assemble it in an attractive manner.

An autogenerated code wiki (or a lazy human) can presumably do the fourth step, but it can't do the first three steps preceding it, and without those preceding steps you're just rearranging known data. There are times where that can be helpful, but it's more often just gloss