The LLM Flywheel Effect: AI That Writes and Tests Documentation

To help a team member get up to speed on a project, I had to learn and then document how to set up a Mac environment with both Node.js and the .NET runtime. I had never used .NET on a Mac, so the first customer for this piece of documentation was me. Naturally, I tapped my team of AI assistants who collectively hold a lot of knowledge about the topic. They wrote instructions, I followed along and reported problems, and we iterated toward the solution.

Then the penny dropped: These AI assistants can not only help write the instructions, but…