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Keyword: documentation translations

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Target keywords: documentation translations, translation drift

Thesis: Every English doc update opens a gap in every translated version. Most teams have no system to detect or close those gaps.

Target reader: Technical writers and DevRel engineers at developer-facing companies managing multilingual documentation.

Key points:

  1. English is only ~25% of internet users — the developer market is global and non-English-first
  2. Translation creates a second drift layer: every English update creates gaps in all translated versions simultaneously
  3. Translated pages carry no source-version metadata, making staleness undetectable without manual comparison
  4. Continuous localization requires source change detection, diff-based queues, and source-version stamping
  5. An accurate English source is the prerequisite for translation — stale source docs distribute errors into more languages

Promptless connection: Keeping the English source accurate is the foundation of any translation pipeline. Promptless monitors docs against the codebase continuously, ensuring what gets translated is worth translating.

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