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do we need documentation in the age of AI?
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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For .one-off web page that is true. You and I might not like that under the hood it's a mess but we have to accept that if it works anyway and nobody is going to need to change it, that's fine.
Also the latest models don't even make a mess any more.
There's not really any such thing as a one off web page.
It's eventually going to need to be updated or reused for something else.
The only exceptions being if your company goes under, force majure, or if you have something with the same requirements but choose to make the same thing again from scratch for no real reason , which is just being inefficient and unreasonable.
Yeah.... I'm calling bullshit on that, all four projects I was handed was made by the latest models and it will continue being an issue for the foreseeable future. (see a previous comment of mine for reasoning: https://programming.dev/post/57569685/26398217)
Of course there is. What an absurd thing to say. A very obvious example is event websites, e.g. for weddings.
Maybe it depends on the language but I've recently vibe coded two tools in Rust and I've skimmed the code and it's perfectly good Rust. I would accept it in a PR - even if I was being as picky as I'd really like to be in reviews. I don't think that would have been the case 3 months ago though.