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2025 archives

  1. Book review of "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" by Karen Hao

  2. Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

  3. Defining bug zero and two obstacles: Reducing review time and gathering context

  4. Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers

  5. Why getting to bug zero is so hard

  6. Recording of Coffee and Content episode: What's wrong with AI-generated docs?

  7. Review of Parmy Olson's Supremacy — and the futility of chasing non-capitalist dreams

  8. Productivity Experiments and Advice: Continuing the Journey with Slow Productivity and Meditations for Mortals — guest post by David Kowalsky

  9. Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)

  10. Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers

  11. AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil

  12. The problem with single-sourced docs when fact checking with AI

  13. The allure of iterative improvement loops (AI experiments)

  14. My first vibecoding project (AI experiments)

  15. API quick reference guides (and the challenges of passing long content into AI contexts)

  16. Notes and discussion for Suleyman's The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future + AI Book Club recording and transcript

  17. Reflections on the WTD Portland 2025 conference

  18. AI-powered Enterprise Knowledge Platforms: Fluid Topics Q&A with Fabrice Lacroix

  19. API quick reference diagrams and my upcoming AI the Docs presentation

  20. Speaking up and calling out BS when you see it -- some reflections on Jonathan Rauch's book The Constitution of Knowledge

  21. I feel like I’ve seen the future today

  22. New article added to API documentation site: Document360 for API docs

  23. Notes and discussion for Jonathan Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI + AI Book Club recording

  24. Book review of Jonathan Warner's book More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI

  25. Book review of Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, by Ben Goldfarb

  26. I'm starting an AI Book Club

  27. Countering AGI with superintelligent docs?

  28. Links from around the web: vibecoding, 60-hour work weeks, smaller internet communities, ethical compromises, and expertise

  29. Do developers need code samples in API documentation?

  30. Fixing bugs without thinking, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the shift towards more complex tech comm tasks

  31. Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment

  32. Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation

  33. Is AI eroding slow mode? Push-button solutions versus thought partners, and approaches to challenging writing tasks

  34. Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series)

  35. My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm

About Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson

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