https://coderrob.com/tags/documentation/Recent content in Documentation on CoderrobHugoen-USTue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://coderrob.com/posts/functional-documentation-is-an-agentic-guardrail/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://coderrob.com/posts/functional-documentation-is-an-agentic-guardrail/<p><strong>Functional documentation becomes more valuable, not less, when AI agents are writing and reviewing code.</strong></p> <p>I heard an architect argue that, in the age of AI agents, functional documentation in source code was no longer necessary. The agent can read the code, after all. Why explain what a function does when the implementation is sitting right there?</p> <p>My first reaction was that the opinion was somewhat absurd and potentially dangerous.</p>