Most teams don’t have a documentation shortage. They have a context shortage.

The average developer spends 20 minutes hunting for context before a one-line change. Their AI pair-programmer spends that same time hallucinating.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what documentation actually needs to become in an AI-assisted world. The answer isn’t “more docs.” It’s not even “AI-generated docs.”

It’s Atomic Context Documentation: smaller, sharper, verified context that stays near the code and helps both humans and AI work on the system safely.

In my new article, I break down: