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Keyword: documentation translations

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Thesis: Documentation translations don't fail at the translation step; they fail at the update step — every source change silently abandons translated versions.

Target reader: Technical writers and developer advocates at companies shipping to international developer audiences, who have or are considering multilingual docs.

Key points:

  1. Drift is multiplicative across languages — one source update creates N stale pages, but only English gets caught quickly
  2. The standard workflow breaks at detection, not translation speed
  3. AI has lowered initial translation cost ~97%, but didn't fix maintenance
  4. The fix is monitoring source changes and surfacing affected translated pages automatically

Promptless connection: Promptless detects when source docs drift from the product — that upstream signal is what keeps translations from falling behind.

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