Marketing and Content · Engineering Blog · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
Technical writer uses an agent to understand the code before writing
Fern's only technical writer asks the agent to explore the repositories and explain how things work.
- Profession
- Technical Writer
- Tools
- Devin
- Source
- buildwithfern.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- March 10, 2026
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
Devin Logan uses the agent, which already knows the company's repositories, to explore the code before documenting, and calls in a writing agent on Slack with questions for engineering.
How it went
The company describes a gain in the writer's autonomy; no numbers.
Good to know
Documentation needs to be reviewed by someone who knows the product.
The prompt
Explain to a non-technical user how [feature] works based on this snippet [paste]. Then write the documentation: what it does, when to use it, step by step and common errors.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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