https://zhanwei.wang/en/tags/knowledge-management/Recent content in Knowledge Management on Zhanwei WangHugoen-USThu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://zhanwei.wang/en/posts/when-documentation-stops-rotting/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0800https://zhanwei.wang/en/posts/when-documentation-stops-rotting/<blockquote> <p>Humans write the original documents and make decisions. LLMs handle synthesis, updates, and consistency checks. Documentation is no longer a static artifact that rots the moment it&rsquo;s written — it becomes a living knowledge base continuously maintained by LLMs.</p> </blockquote> <h2 id="an-age-old-problem">An Age-Old Problem</h2> <p>Every software engineer has experienced this: you join a project, open the docs, and find the README still describing a module deleted six months ago, API docs with fields that don&rsquo;t match the code at all, and architecture diagrams showing a design from two versions back. You ask a colleague, who says, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t bother with the docs — just read the code.&rdquo;</p>