About what AI would need to replace human technical writers.
Has this happened?
Yes 60 (42%)Not sure 29 (20%)No 53 (37%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About what AI would need to replace human technical writers.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
but can't quite put my finger on what exactly it's missing.
We have to ask AI questions for it to do things. We have to probe it. A human knows things and will probe others, unprompted. It's why we are actually intelligent and the LLM is a word guesser.