It hasn't happened yet, despite bold claims and misleading AI-washing. It's not gonna happen either. Many tech writers haven't written a doc from scratch in months, and the quality has held, because the writing was always the cheap part.

Stochastic parrots can augment writers so they can feed the machines and guide the humans faster, but they can't replace the parts that are genuinely human, like chasing subject-matter experts or understand product tensions. They can't care.

The job is changing, though: We are deciding, editing, and orchestrating more than we are typing. And that's not a bad thing. We are becoming context curators. Or content engineers. Or whatever name you fancy and need so that stakeholders get it.

Folks who're firing, or are considering firing writers because of AI, should reconsider. Writers will stand.

So, the answer is