This one is going to be a short one, but I wanted to write down what I was thinking lately: AI is forcing people to write documentation.

The rise of agentic AI and longer context windows means that Software Engineers are curating, and notably keeping up-to-date, documentation detailing their ways of working, the domain they work in, and the projects they work with.

The process of providing context to an LLM tool is forcing us, and really most people in the organization, to think clearly about the tools, the workflows, the pain points, the constraints, the hacks, and everything else we deal with in our work.

This company brain is as useful for new hires, non-technical people asking business questions, and Software Engineers evolving the projects, as it is for LLM tools.

This is the sort of documentation discipline that people tried to push for decades but the incentives were never really there.