> I would then have to wonder if all the time saved in the first place at all.
From my experiences using AI to write documentation, if your bar is high quality documentation, yes, you do save time, but it's on the order of a 1.5-2x efficiency boost, not 10x. The AI basically saves me one draft iteration and saves me the trouble of creating charts by hand, and that's substantial, but I still need to take a fine toothed comb to the output.
The biggest issue I run into is that AI is good at the tone to address an intended audience but is not good at framing and structuring the information for said audience.
From my experiences using AI to write documentation, if your bar is high quality documentation, yes, you do save time, but it's on the order of a 1.5-2x efficiency boost, not 10x. The AI basically saves me one draft iteration and saves me the trouble of creating charts by hand, and that's substantial, but I still need to take a fine toothed comb to the output.
The biggest issue I run into is that AI is good at the tone to address an intended audience but is not good at framing and structuring the information for said audience.