I found a plugin a while back called "AI Diagrams" that generates whimsical.com diagrams for me. Combined with the "speech to text" systems in chatgpt means I can just start babbling about some topic and let it write it all down, collect it into documentation, and even spit out a few diagrams from it.
I generally have to spend like 10 minutes cleaning them up and rearranging them to look a bit more sane, but it's been a godsend!
Similarly I sometimes paste a bunch of code in and tell it to write some starter docs for this code, then I can go from there and clean it up manually, or just tell it what changes need to be made. (technically I tend to use editor plugins these days not copy+paste, but the idea is the same)
Other times I'll paste in docs and have it reformat them into something better. Like I recently took our ~3 year old README in a monorepo that goes over all the build and lint commands and had it rearrange everything into sets of markdown tables which displayed the data in a much easier to understand format.
I found a plugin a while back called "AI Diagrams" that generates whimsical.com diagrams for me. Combined with the "speech to text" systems in chatgpt means I can just start babbling about some topic and let it write it all down, collect it into documentation, and even spit out a few diagrams from it.
I generally have to spend like 10 minutes cleaning them up and rearranging them to look a bit more sane, but it's been a godsend!
Similarly I sometimes paste a bunch of code in and tell it to write some starter docs for this code, then I can go from there and clean it up manually, or just tell it what changes need to be made. (technically I tend to use editor plugins these days not copy+paste, but the idea is the same)
Other times I'll paste in docs and have it reformat them into something better. Like I recently took our ~3 year old README in a monorepo that goes over all the build and lint commands and had it rearrange everything into sets of markdown tables which displayed the data in a much easier to understand format.