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01. Future of Documentation

Disclaimer: There is no doubt about it that LLM's have been leveraged to write down the Deternet project structure even though it ground work was already created before LLM's were available to the general public. As with any sector LLM's have deeply changed the documentation landscape in many different ways. Today and even more in the future documentation in human readable form for any project will be written by AI. The job of the human expert is then to check if what the AI has written is actually correct. 

Hence, you will not get rid of human technical writers but the job changes from being a writer to being a controller if everything is correct and adjust if something is wrong. You could compare it to a pilot that always flies on automatic pilot but needs to constantly check if everything goes according to plan and adjust if something goes wrong.

To better illustrate this we can look at how LLM's can now write documentation for code that has been created by another AI with a human in the loop. The workflow goes like this in the sense of spec driven development with documentation included.

  1. The whole application, website is created by AI but guided and structured by humans
  2. Then each time code is ready according to the human expert it will ask the AI to write documentation for the newly written code
  3. Then it will ask for new features, evaluate the code and will ask it again to write documentation for it. 
  4. Then the process repeats

Diagrams, Graphs, Work Flows, Etcetera

Instead of you manually taking data and making diagrams, graphs, work flows, charts and other forms of representing data you can let your 

Analysis of the data

  1. All the data created can be used together to look for correlations and you can easily do comparisons with different years, percentages, and take extra data from the internet as well to compare with multiple countries for instance or how would this data likely change if we increased variable x or included variable y.

Documentation for Network Engineers

Yes, all documentation is checked by humans before it is published on any Deternet society or hub. But people in the field will more and more use AI agents that can 

Monitoring Systems

People in the field will have the skills to lay the cables, and to splice the fiber, connect it to the right ports, but more and more can be standardized like OPNSense routers, switches, wap's and more. All this knowledge needs to be collected in a central place and updated constantly. 

How is information retrieved

Most often engineers will not move to any of the documentation pages if the documentation is already included in a large LLM or small models can be created completely focused on laws and regulations inside a country or region. Basically, the AI is reading the docs and people have conversations with documentation instead of manually searching through it. Even though, myself I catch myself manually search most of the time anyways.

 

Universities

The future of teaching is to private AI tutors. It is clear by now that people can learn much more from a private AI tutor, tailored for them instead of in a general class room.

  1. Personally Tailored programs. A student coming from mathematics can already skip certain courses e.g calculus and linear algebra if it wants to switch to a physics degree for instance. On top of that a student will only move on to the next subject if it understand the prerequisites well enough to move on.
  2. Standardized examination: Universities and schools can share their examination questions in one big pool for a particular subject. Then an AI is trained to make similar questions out of it. These can then be examined 
  3. Story Telling: An AI tutor can tell the story of the life of an inventor, scientists and why things were revolutionary, out of the box e.g math duels for instance. In this way a student learns by evolution and not just learn tricks on how to solve things without understanding where they came from. 
  4. Instant Feedback and personalized pacing: An AI tutor can provide instant feedback for any question you are dealing with inside a curriculum. Regardless if it is 2 in the night or 2 in the afternoon in the weekends. 
  5. Scheduling: It could schedule for you during your day when you can learn and at which moments you need have certain skills s.t you can be ready for examination at the due date. 
  6. Traditional Universities may soon become more primarily credentialing institutions that you have the skills that you say you have rather than knowledge delivery systems as it was back in the days. 
  7. It allows remote learning without being stuck to a physical place. 

What AI Tutors don't do

  1. Instead of the university holding you accountable for studying it is the AI that will hold you accountable. It is of course a lot easier to procrastinate if it is an AI bot that you can just turn of. Even though lectures are not mandatory they do hold you more accountable to show up for certain events. 
  2. Developing social skills: This is a major one! basically creating friends and go through the same struggle together. This is some real bonding and creates lots of laughs and empathy development. 
  3. Enthusiasm and Passion from other class mates that make you want to study what you study. In the end as greatly said by Christopher McCandless: "Happiness is only real when shared"
  4. Struggle: If a program is not tailored to your learning curve you are forced to perform in moments you could also procrastinate. As well people learn through not getting an extra hint, not knowing how to solve a problem, going through texts ideas to finally come up with a next step. This struggle is a really valuable skill and mindset that you learn only through not being able to get a hint or get the answer. With AI you can always ask for another hint or the answer if you feel like you can't solve a problem. The question is what is enough struggle and to what extend could time be used more wisely to move on and develop instead of wasting it searching for things. 

Psychologists

Your AI assistant will most likely become the best therapist you can wish for that is always ready when you need help.