Like many an English major, I began my career in software as a technical writer. When a young friend recently asked for advice about entering that profession, I realized that, after decades as a sleepy discipline, software documentation is now interesting in ways it has never been before.
This has been true for a while, as LLMs have ingested docs and made them more useful. An MCP server for a corpus of docs amplifies that benefit. You can think of it as llms.txt on steroids, a kind of sitemap that works as an attention-focusing mechanism….
