Treat AI-Generated READMEs Like First Drafts

Your AI Wrote the README. Now Get Out the Red Pen.

Ask AI to "write a README for this repository," and you shall receive.

If you're careful, you might give it a template. Maybe you've baked documentation requirements into a spec-driven workflow. Either way, what comes back usually looks polished enough to trust: neat sections, clean Markdown, sensible links, maybe even enough technical detail that you start noticing things about your own project you hadn't thought to document yourself.

It's awesome.

You didn't have to do the tedious work of gathering what you know, deciding what matters, organizing it for someone else, and turning all of that into what will probably become the single most referenced piece of documentation in your repository.

The model handled the formatting. It picked the headings. It linked the sections. It may even have sprinkled in an emoji or two with unnerving confidence.

And that's...

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