Doc rot: the maintenance gap the end-to-end argument leaves open
Documentation can pass every existing check while losing fit with the product. Keeping it current requires both the right evidence and a maintained path back after change.
Documentation can pass every existing check while losing fit with the product. Keeping it current requires both the right evidence and a maintained path back after change.
Christopher Strachey’s 1965 macrogenerator shows why an abstraction layer only pays off when you commit to it fully, and what that means for building with LLMs.