--- title: "2025 archives" description: "{% for post in site.posts %} {% capture year %}{{post.date | date:" canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/archives-2025/ --- # 2025 archives - [A hodgepodge of ideas spewing in my head](/blog/hodgepodge-of-ideas-in-my-head) | Dec 26, 2025 - [AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence](/blog/co-intelligence-mollick-book-club) | Dec 17, 2025 - [Book review of "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick — an educator embraces experience-based AI learning](/blog/book-review-co-intelligence-mollick) | Dec 17, 2025 - [The cost of speaking up: Thoughts on "The War on Words" by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen](/blog/war-on-words-book-review-free-speech-costs) | Dec 6, 2025 - [The isolation and loneliness of tech writing may get worse as AI accelerates](/blog/isolation-loneliness-worsens-with-ai) | Dec 4, 2025 - [Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](/blog/podcast-episode-3-documentation-theater-acceleration-paradox) | Nov 30, 2025 - [Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus](/blog/nexus-harari-ai-book-club) | Nov 22, 2025 - [Troubleshooting build processes with a fix-it mindset](/blog/troubleshoot-build-processes-fixit-mind) | Nov 20, 2025 - [Review of Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus" — and why we don't need self-correcting mechanisms for "alien intelligence"](/blog/review-harari-nexus-scms-and-alien-intelligence) | Nov 15, 2025 - [The difficulty of tracking and interpreting AI usage labels](/blog/track-ai-usage-dilemmas) | Nov 12, 2025 - [Why long-running tasks autonomously carried out by agentic AI aren't the future of doc work, and might just be an illusion](/blog/collaborative-thought-partner-not-autonomous) | Nov 8, 2025 - [Guest post: Generative AI, technical writing, and evolving thoughts on future horizons, by Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt](/blog/gen-ai-techcomm-evolving-future) | Nov 6, 2025 - [Changing the AI narrative from liberation to acceleration](/blog/ai-narrative-from-liberation-to-acceleration) | Nov 3, 2025 - [Medium CEO explains how AI is changing writing](/blog/stubblebine-how-ai-is-changing-writing) | Oct 30, 2025 - [Making it easy for people to review your changelists (Doc bug zero series)](/blog/make-easy-to-review-changelists) | Oct 29, 2025 - [MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes -- podcast with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and Anandi Knuppel](/blog/mcp-tools-language-tech-writing) | Oct 26, 2025 - [Recording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst](/blog/book-club-hands-on-llms) | Oct 26, 2025 - [Switching from Commento to LinkedIn for Blog Comments](/blog/disabled-commento-service-uselinkedin-instead) | Oct 12, 2025 - [Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors](/blog/podcast-fabri-tom-sept-episode-1) | Sep 28, 2025 - [Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you](/blog/strategies-to-succeed-in-context-of-ai) | Sep 27, 2025 - [Book review of 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI' by Karen Hao](/blog/book-review-empire-of-ai-karen-hao) | Sep 22, 2025 - [Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI](/blog/book-club-empire-of-ai) | Sep 22, 2025 - [Defining bug zero and two obstacles: Reducing review time and gathering context](/blog/defining-bug-zero-and-obstacles) | Aug 26, 2025 - [Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers](/blog/book-club-lee-ai-superpowers) | Aug 19, 2025 - [Why getting to bug zero is so hard](/blog/goal-get-to-bug-zero) | Aug 15, 2025 - [Recording of Coffee and Content episode: What's wrong with AI-generated docs?](/blog/whats-wrong-ai-webinar-recording) | Aug 10, 2025 - [Review of Parmy Olson's Supremacy — and the futility of chasing non-capitalist dreams](/blog/olson-supremacy-dreams-capitalism) | Jul 19, 2025 - [Productivity Experiments and Advice: Continuing the Journey with Slow Productivity and Meditations for Mortals — guest post by David Kowalsky](/blog/kowalsky-productivity-experiments-advice) | Jul 18, 2025 - [Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)](/blog/evolution-techcomm-fabrice-lacroix-podcast) | Jul 5, 2025 - [Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers](/blog/plurality-of-ai-attitudes-experiences) | Jun 29, 2025 - [AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil](/blog/kurzweil-singularity-ai-book-club-recording-notes) | Jun 15, 2025 - [The problem with single-sourced docs when fact checking with AI](/blog/is-single-sourcing-over) | Jun 9, 2025 - [The allure of iterative improvement loops (AI experiments)](/blog/allure-of-the-loop) | Jun 5, 2025 - [My first vibecoding project (AI experiments)](/blog/my-first-vibecoding-project) | Jun 4, 2025 - [API quick reference guides (and the challenges of passing long content into AI contexts)](/blog/api-qrg-challenges-of-long-content) | Jun 1, 2025 - [Notes and discussion for Suleyman's The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future + AI Book Club recording and transcript](/blog/suleyman-the-coming-wave-notes) | May 17, 2025 - [Reflections on the WTD Portland 2025 conference](/blog/wtd-conf-2025-reflections) | May 11, 2025 - [AI-powered Enterprise Knowledge Platforms: Fluid Topics Q&A with Fabrice Lacroix](/blog/fluid-topics-ai-strategy-qa-fabrice) | May 11, 2025 - [API quick reference diagrams and my upcoming AI the Docs presentation](/blog/api-quick-reference-guides) | May 11, 2025 - [Speaking up and calling out BS when you see it -- some reflections on Jonathan Rauch's book The Constitution of Knowledge](/blog/speaking-up-calling-out-bs) | May 3, 2025 - [I feel like I’ve seen the future today](/blog/seen-the-future-document-authoring-api) | Apr 30, 2025 - [New article added to API documentation site: Document360 for API docs](/blog/document360-for-api-docs) | Apr 30, 2025 - [Notes and discussion for John Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI + AI Book Club recording](/blog/warner-book-more-than-words-notes) | Apr 15, 2025 - [Book review of John Warner's book 'More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI'](/blog/jonathan-warner-more-than-words-book-review) | Mar 20, 2025 - [Book review of Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, by Ben Goldfarb](/blog/book-review-crossings-ben-goldfarb) | Mar 11, 2025 - [I'm starting an AI Book Club](/blog/ai-book-club-human-in-the-loop) | Mar 11, 2025 - [Countering AGI with superintelligent docs?](/blog/superintelligent-docs) | Mar 9, 2025 - [Links from around the web: vibecoding, 60-hour work weeks, smaller internet communities, ethical compromises, and expertise](/blog/links-vibecoding-60-hours-small-communities) | Mar 2, 2025 - [Do developers need code samples in API documentation?](/blog/code-samples-might-not-be-needed-anymore) | Mar 2, 2025 - [Fixing bugs without thinking, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the shift towards more complex tech comm tasks](/blog/recursive-self-improvement-complex-tasks) | Feb 24, 2025 - [Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment](/blog/divided-highways-technoutopian-disillusionment) | Feb 22, 2025 - [Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation](/blog/wtd-australia-release-notes-with-ai) | Feb 17, 2025 - [Is AI eroding slow mode? Push-button solutions versus thought partners, and approaches to challenging writing tasks](/blog/ai-eroding-slow-mode) | Feb 9, 2025 - [Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series)](/blog/use-ai-with-issue-trackers-prompt-eng) | Jan 26, 2025 - [My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm](/blog/trends-predictions-2025-tech-comm) | Jan 5, 2025