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# Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

> In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti, a tech writer in Barcelona who blogs at passo.uno and works for Splunk, about various AI news topics. We talk about the Forrester AI jobs impact forecast, the community element in documentation, the way the profession is changing with AI, content design roles with LLMs, how complex processes and interactions can't be automated, whether the word 'content' is problematic, and more.

**Listen here:**

[Audio](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/fabriziochataioct18.mp3)

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[Video: YouTube video player](https://www.youtube.com/embed/YyAtNrJQu-0)

## More about Fabrizio

Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti is a multilingual, Italian-born technical writer living in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2008, he has been communicating about technology and connecting people at tech companies, first as a tech journalist and content strategist, then as an API designer and tech writer. Fabrizio says he knows enough coding to be dangerous and often creates his own tools He takes a human-centered approach, believing tech companies need more writers, philosophers, and educators.

Fabrizio’s website, [Passo Uno](https://passo.uno/), reflects how technical writing is like stop motion — a step-by-step sequence flowing like a real conversation. You can follow [Fabrizio on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabrizioferri/).

(Note that this podcast is based on Fabrizio’s personal thoughts and does not reflect Splunk.)

## Links

- [Passo Uno](https://passo.uno/)
- [Bestiary: On Doc Types and Other Animals](https://passo.uno/docs-bestiary-taxonomy/)
- [Docs-as-Ecosystem: The Community Approach to Engineering Documentation, by Alejandra Quetzalli](https://www.amazon.com/Docs-as-Ecosystem-Community-Approach-Engineering-Documentation/dp/1484293274)
- [Forrester’s 2023 Generative AI Jobs Impact Forecast, US](https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/09/06/forrester_gen_ai_report_pdf.pdf)
- [The open source docs portfolio myth, by Daniel Beck](https://ddbeck.com/starving-for-docs/)
- [Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets, by Andrew Deck](https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-developers-fiction-poetry-scale-ai-appen/)
- [Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude, by Jason Bailey](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/movies/emma-thompson-writers-strike-content.html)
- My news summary and commentary: [Forrester Report, Coding jobs, Hyper-personalization, RFPs, Call center replacement (Oct 9, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-oct-9)
- My news summary and commentary: [Open-source contribution myths, Hiring poets to train LLMs, Problems with ‘content’, AI agents (Oct 6, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-oct-6-2023)