With coding agents rising, companies may start hiding their documentation
paraschopra · x · 2026-08-25
Paras Chopra predicts a reversal in software: historically software was closed-source but docs were freely readable. As coding agents rise, companies may start hiding documentation — since complete docs hand AI agents the full spec to easily replicate competing products.
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