How to Write Documentation for Both Humans and AI Retrieval Systems
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Your documentation has a new reader, and it doesn't have eyes. AI tools like chatbots, IDE assistants, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems now stand between your carefully written docs and the engineer who needs them. These tools chop your pages into chunks, search for relevant matches, and generate responses before a human ever visits the actual page.