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title: "Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI"
date: 2024-07-28
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# Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI

> In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use AI to populate documentation templates with the source material you've gathered. For example, API overviews often follow a highly structured template. This technique can be a quick way to get an initial draft of documentation, which you can then edit and review with SMEs.

**Listen here:**

[Audio](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/promptengvid3-doctemplates.mp3)

[![](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/apple_podcasts.png)](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id-rather-be-writing-podcast/id277365275) [![](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/watchonyoutubeblack.png)](https://www.youtube.com/@idratherbewriting) [![](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/spotify.png)](https://open.spotify.com/show/4HeOZfPGMMfViOhVS40QBD)

[Video: Using AI to populate documentation templates with source material](https://www.youtube.com/embed/mEEhk14I2I8)

For a written version of this video tutorial, see [Populating documentation templates using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/ai/prompt-engineering-populating-documentation-templates.html).

To watch more of the Keren Brown Zoomin podcast, see [Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams’ work](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/value-techcomm-zoomin-podcast).