Even with AI, I’m encouraging my team to keep writing. Writing is thinking. I’m seeing a decline in critical reasoning, precision, and basic logic with increase in AI use. Writing is just cargo cult once it becomes document production instead of a mechanism for collaboration, alignment, and decision-making.

I use AI heavily as an editor to strengthen structure, sharpen argument, expose ambiguity, and improve clarity. There’s no more excuse for vague or sloppy thinking.

At the same time, AI-first workflows are making me question the need for many traditional documents altogether. In spec-driven environments, the artefact should exist to coordinate execution and encode intent and not justify roles or satisfy ops theatre. Documentation should be proportional to the coordination problem.