The model becomes the software, the model becomes the docs?

[Ned Bedinger]

These guys seem to be making computers more intuitive:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2100538,00.asp

So I wonder, if the model becomes the software, couldn't it become the 
documentation too?

Anyway, as tech writer, I think I could work with 90% less SME time 
required if I had a self-documenting model to work from.

Recall that UML was going to tie documentation to models, by having 
everything in the model self-documenting--just query anything to see its 
own explanation of what it does.

Self-documenting code (like javadocs) is supposed to do something 
similar for the documentation of programming code, and techwr-l gets an 
occasional comment confirming that this can work, so why not 
self-documenting models?

Does anyone work with a dev team that thinks adding documentary 
explanations to the model components is a bridge for the tech writers?

Ned Bedinger
doc at edwordsmith.com