Welcome to your monthly round-up in the world of documentation from the Tech Writing team at FINN!

The best things we read last month 🤩

Are your Google Docs safe from AI training?

“With AI continuing its slow rise to prominence, consumers are concerned their personal content is being used to train Google’s generative service.“

Discord is not Documentation

And neither is Slack.

FreeBSD Journal DE May/June 2023 24

Reflections on how solid documentation contributed to the success of the FreeBSD project:

“Early in its evolution, FreeBSD embraced contributors that focused on system documentation. […] The project set up a documentation committer group for the folks doing the documentation. This group was given all the rights and privileges of code committers.“

Building personal and organizational prestige

Or why we have a Content Hub.

Tools to check out

Danswer

A tool to ask natural language questions against internal documents and get back reliable answers backed by quotes and references from the source material, so that you can always trust what you get back.

gpt4docstrings

A Python library that uses ChatGPT to locate undocumented functions or classes and generate docstrings for each one of them.

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