I still write documentation and/or review it.
There is still a need for it.
Whether it’s done quickly by AI, reviewed by me, or written by me from scratch – we need to know how things work.
When I would have problems studying, writing things out always helped me learn more and fill in gaps of what I had missed.
That is the magic of a manual when you give it to someone – here is the recipe, the plan, the instructions for how to accomplish a task.
There is a reason that anything you buy comes with a paper manual, because they can’t constantly change and update it – when it was built for product X.
We still need manuals.