Oct. 20, 2024 I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. My work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, but the sound and semantics of my new title gave me some pause and made me think about what it really means to be doing docs-as-code. To say that it’s about writing documentation using the same tools and methods as software developers is correct, but fails to acknowledge the full consequences of the fact. Most descriptions of docs-as-code are naive because they st...