Why AI-Drafted Runbooks Still Need Human Verification

AI can dramatically reduce documentation burden by generating first drafts from incident reports and command histories, but runbooks only become trustworthy when humans verify every command actually works and edit machine prose into language teams will read during emergencies. The real problem isn't creating documentation—it's documentation rot, where outdated guides silently fail precisely at 3am when you need them most. By keeping humans as verifiers and editors rather than creators, organizations finally break the cycle where critical documentation is abandoned when it matters most.