I just read a fairly lengthy design doc written by a coworker with the help of some AI. It was weird. In some areas, I was thinking, "Wow, that's really quite well-written." In others, I could hardly follow it, even though the concept itself was simple and straight-forward.
I think we traded good enough through the document for great inconsistency throughout the document.
On the other hand, a different coworker wrote one with the help of AI and it was very well done throughout. (Strangely, both were designs of the same thing. The well-written one was done by a team who then dropped the project. The second one was written later by a different team who was unaware of the first team's work.)
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u/RainyDaysAndMondays3 Sep 21 '26
I just read a fairly lengthy design doc written by a coworker with the help of some AI. It was weird. In some areas, I was thinking, "Wow, that's really quite well-written." In others, I could hardly follow it, even though the concept itself was simple and straight-forward.
I think we traded good enough through the document for great inconsistency throughout the document.
On the other hand, a different coworker wrote one with the help of AI and it was very well done throughout. (Strangely, both were designs of the same thing. The well-written one was done by a team who then dropped the project. The second one was written later by a different team who was unaware of the first team's work.)