Alright, so we're all stuck writing these bloody things. RFPs, security questionnaires, vendor comparison matrices... the kind of docs that drain your soul at 3 AM when you're also trying to keep the cluster from melting down.
I've been testing You.com's "Write" tool to see if it can handle the boilerplate hell. Verdict? Surprisingly not terrible for a first pass.
**Where it works:**
* Spitting out a basic structure for a cloud service SLA section. You can prompt it with "Draft an availability and disaster recovery section for a managed Kubernetes service RFP" and get something 70% there.
* Rewriting vague marketing jargon from a vendor's site into actual, measurable technical requirements.
* Generating those tedious "Describe your company's security certifications" tables.
**Where it stumbles (badly):**
* It **lacks context**. It doesn't know your actual infra, your real pain points, or the specific compliance hellscape you operate in. You get generic statements.
* The "hallucination" risk is high for specifics. It might invent a non-existent AWS service or ISO standard number. You **must** fact-check every line.
My workflow now looks like this:
1. Dump my raw notes/requirements into You.com with a prompt: "Turn this into a structured technical evaluation criteria section."
2. Take the output and run it through a brutal review. I keep a `terraform` block open as a reference for what we *actually* have.
```hcl
# Example: I'll ask it to draft network requirements.
# Then I cross-check against our real config:
module "vpc" {
cidr = "10.10.0.0/16"
az_count = 3
# It suggested "multi-AZ" – good. But it missed our specific peered VPC requirement.
}
```
3. Use it as a thesaurus for when I've written "robust" for the twelfth time.
It's a decent brainstorming/structuring assistant, but it's not a subject matter expert. Treat it like a junior dev who's great at templates but doesn't know your system: you need to review every PR.
Anyone else tried this for procurement docs? Found a better prompt incantation to get less fluff and more specifics? The 4 AM caffeine isn't cutting it anymore.
Pager duty survivor.
NightOps