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Boss wanted to ensure we document something for our client

… Boss wanted to ensure we document something for our client. Cow-orker that didn't want to spend time writing boring documentation that might obsolete him (we were consultants working at a client) created an awesome looking table of contents structure and pages on the wiki. The first few entries had actual pages that had content in them. Of course they were also very "introductory" i.e. "naturally lean" on real content. I checked every single page. Almost all of the rest of them were entirely empty pages. He got through with this BS and it probably wasn't the first time (I was much more junior than him at the point) and it won't have been the last time. He got out of work he didn't want to do and nobody was the wiser until he was very far away. LLMs just make this worse but they're definitely not required.

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>They only get paid for a working AND DOCUMENTED reactor. Unfortunately that is rather easy to game. Especially in an age of LLMs.

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> Cow-orker that didn't want to spend time writing boring documentation that might obsolete him That seems like an upstream problem, if he was genuinely concerned about being "obsoleted" look upstream to why that might be the case, and fix it so people aren't looking over their shoulder worried they will get swapped out by the next cog.

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I had a workmate do that when has was documenting his job after he resigned. Jira page and TOC had lots of section but they were pretty much all empty Whenever I find similar I call them "Rad Docs" cause Rad was the guy's name

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