I joined Patrick Bosek on the Behind the Docs podcast to talk about what AI actually means for technical writing. We covered the evolving role of tech writers as architects of tooling and content systems, why AI works better as a collaborator than a replacement, the tension between moving fast and implementing thoughtfully, the case for local and self-hosted models, and why great docs in the future will need to work for machines as much as for humans.
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source & further reading
passo.uno — original article
Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
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