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title: "Write the Docs Podcast episode 7: Let The Robots Do The Work"
date: 2017-07-06
description: "Links mentioned during the podcast:  89% chance that tech writers lose jobs to robots The Rise of the Machine (video, 11:40..."
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# Write the Docs Podcast episode 7: Let The Robots Do The Work
- [89% chance that tech writers lose jobs to robots](https://twitter.com/TheNextWeb/status/869592670263529472)

 - [The Rise of the Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk) (video, 11:40 min)

 - [The Rise of the Robots](http://amzn.to/2r0rtDS)

 - [The Second Machine Age](http://amzn.to/2r6xt28)

 - [Automated writing tool](http://articoolo.com/)

 - [Automatic Documentation Generation via Source Code Summarization of Method Context](https://www3.nd.edu/~cmc/papers/mcburney_icpc_2014.pdf)

 - [soap! – Poland tech writing conference](http://soapconf.com/)

For more details, see the [post on the WTD podcast site](http://podcast.writethedocs.org/2017/07/03/episode-7-machine-automation-and-poland/).