AI and tech comm

The AI-doc category includes content related to language-generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and others.

The following content is in the ai category:

Notes and discussion for Suleyman's The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future + AI Book Club recording and transcript | May 17, 2025

Reflections on the WTD Portland 2025 conference | May 11, 2025

AI-powered Enterprise Knowledge Platforms: Fluid Topics Q&A with Fabrice Lacroix | May 11, 2025

API quick reference diagrams and my upcoming AI the Docs presentation | May 11, 2025

I feel like I’ve seen the future today | Apr 30, 2025

New article added to API documentation site: Document360 for API docs | Apr 30, 2025

Notes and discussion for Jonathan Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI + AI Book Club recording | Apr 15, 2025

Book review of Jonathan Warner's book More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI | Mar 20, 2025

I'm starting an AI Book Club | Mar 11, 2025

Countering AGI with superintelligent docs? | Mar 9, 2025

Links from around the web: vibecoding, 60-hour work weeks, smaller internet communities, ethical compromises, and expertise | Mar 2, 2025

Do developers need code samples in API documentation? | Mar 2, 2025

Fixing bugs without thinking, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the shift towards more complex tech comm tasks | Feb 24, 2025

Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment | Feb 22, 2025

Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation | Feb 17, 2025

Is AI eroding slow mode? Push-button solutions versus thought partners, and approaches to challenging writing tasks | Feb 9, 2025

Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series) | Jan 26, 2025

My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm | Jan 5, 2025

Using AI to mine log messages from reference doc builds (Prompt engineering series) | Dec 19, 2024

AI stream journaling experiment | Dec 17, 2024

Biohacking your glucose with AI | Dec 17, 2024

Using AI to design landing pages (prompt engineering series) | Nov 17, 2024

Why designing landing pages is hard | Nov 13, 2024

Unpacking the issues from AI — thoughts on Alan Porter's post Am I the AI Luddite? and Fabrizio Benedetti's How I'm using AI as a technical writer | Nov 11, 2024

From engineer interviews to written draft, with chain of thought reasoning | Nov 3, 2024

NotebookLM podcasts -- the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle? | Oct 6, 2024

[Podcast] GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar | Oct 6, 2024

Using AI to jump-start code samples | Sep 29, 2024

Two days in my life as a technical writer, followed by reflection and analysis of fragmenting microtasks | Sep 8, 2024

Podcast: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams | Jul 28, 2024

Podcast: Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set | Jul 28, 2024

Podcast: Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs | Jul 28, 2024

Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI | Jul 28, 2024

Podcast: Gathering source material for context input | Jul 28, 2024

Podcast: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI | Jul 28, 2024

Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set | Jul 15, 2024

Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series) | Jun 26, 2024

Automate links in your release notes using AI (prompt engineering) | Jun 26, 2024

[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown | May 30, 2024

[Prompt engineering series] Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs | May 25, 2024

Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer's little experiment — guest post by Diana Cheung | Apr 23, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Creating scripts to automate doc build processes | Apr 21, 2024

What should your documentation metrics look like? Q&A with Zoomin about their 2024 Technical Content Benchmark Report | Apr 14, 2024

AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations | Apr 14, 2024

Upcoming conference: AI the API docs | Apr 3, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Gathering source input | Mar 20, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Error checking the output | Mar 20, 2024

Integrating AI with your content delivery platform and documentation: Zoomin Q&A with Keren Brown | Mar 18, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation | Mar 4, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI | Mar 4, 2024

Prompt engineering: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams | Feb 20, 2024

Prompt engineering: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI | Feb 20, 2024

Visualizing APIs with tree diagrams, partly generated with AI | Feb 13, 2024

Walking and chatting with ChatGPT | Jan 21, 2024

Moved AI pages into their own collection and space | Jan 20, 2024

[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson | Jan 5, 2024

My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions | Jan 1, 2024

Etto, a new AI co-pilot for Heretto — Q&A with Casey Jordan | Dec 18, 2023

Webinar recording: Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective | Dec 13, 2023

30+ ways I’m using AI in everyday writing life as a technical writer, blogger, and curious human | Dec 4, 2023

Podcast: The evolution of podcasting, with Ed Marsh | Dec 3, 2023

You've heard of 'Docs as code' -- Now get ready for 'Code as docs': Q&A with Speakeasy | Nov 9, 2023

Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs | Nov 9, 2023

My experience trying to write original, full-length human-sounding articles using Claude AI | Oct 25, 2023

Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti | Oct 20, 2023

[Podcast] AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't | Oct 14, 2023

Forrester Report, Coding jobs, Hyper-personalization, RFPs, Call center replacement (Oct 9, 2023) | Oct 9, 2023

What I learned in using AI for planning and prioritization: Content strategy might be safe from automation | Oct 6, 2023

Open-source contribution myths, Hiring poets to train LLMs, Problems with 'content', AI agents (Oct 6, 2023) | Oct 5, 2023

Embracing professional redefinition | Oct 3, 2023

Documentation failures, Bestiaries, AI Explain post mortem, Inside TechComm podcast (Oct 3, 2023) | Oct 2, 2023

New article: AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't | Sep 28, 2023

Claude versus ChatGPT -- and a few thoughts on using AI chatbots on an Alaskan cruise | Sep 18, 2023

Alphadoc: Build API documentation that tells your API's story | Sep 17, 2023

New API course topic: Using AI for summaries | Sep 7, 2023

Links from around the web (Sept 5, 2023) | Sep 5, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI for glossary definitions | Sep 4, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI for comparison tasks with API responses | Aug 28, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis | Aug 28, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI for language advice | Aug 9, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI to create doc updates based on bugs | Aug 9, 2023

New API doc course topic: Using AI to learn coding | Jul 25, 2023

New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts | Jul 19, 2023

New topic in API doc course: AI document engineering with pattern-based prompts | Jul 6, 2023

First Look at Oxygen XML's Positron AI Assistant [API doc course] | Jul 4, 2023

Adding a new AI section to my API doc course | Jul 4, 2023

First look at the Oxygen XML's AI Positron Assistant | Jul 4, 2023

Doctave Q&A with Niklas Begley | Jun 8, 2023

News turns the content wheel of advertising | May 19, 2023

Newsletter: Endless news cycles, style checkers, finding research, noticing things around you | May 19, 2023

AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters | May 19, 2023

Newsletter: Copilot for Docs, Wappalyzer, Illusions, Late projects, Forbidden Fruit | May 11, 2023

Newsletter: Doctave, Chatbase, SiteGPT, small CLs, TC bibliography | May 9, 2023

What’s missing from the AI workflow: incentives for content creators to provide training data | May 4, 2023

Newsletter: Content creator ROI, Netlify, Madbot, and Hollywood | May 4, 2023

Newsletter: AI doc alerts, state of tools, saying easy or just, automated writing teams | May 2, 2023

Newsletter: Docusaurus, Lens, Docs-as-Code, 2022 site analytics, and HTML Table formatting | Apr 27, 2023

Meandering thoughts on my 2022 site analytics | Apr 23, 2023

Markprompt Q&A with Michael Fester | Apr 23, 2023

Newsletter: Alphadoc, vocab lookup, field, Open Assistant, Markprompt, content ops | Apr 20, 2023

Newsletter: GPT-4 tutors, Phind.com, Dark user manuals, interfaces for reading docs, automation scripts, and bball | Apr 17, 2023

AI chat interfaces could become the primary user interface to read documentation | Apr 17, 2023

Using AI tools to look up words and provide mini-poems to help remember their meaning | Apr 16, 2023

A script that creates a new Jekyll post and populates it with YAML frontmatter, and also makes a curl call to add a Rebrandly shortlink | Apr 16, 2023

Newsletter: AI and tech comm survey results, Zoomin's predictions, Beating an ATS, ChatGPT plugin docs | Apr 11, 2023

Survey results: Technical writers on AI | Apr 10, 2023

Newsletter: Why engineers need to write, tech writers in pop culture, 101 subreddit, Cambrian period of AI (April 4, 2023) | Apr 4, 2023

Survey on the impact of AI on tech comm | Apr 3, 2023

The influence of language-generative AI tools on tech comm: parlor tricks or disruption? | Mar 13, 2023

Thoughts on ChatGPT after reading Crawford's Why We Drive: whatever skill you outsource, atrophies | Dec 11, 2022

Having fun with ChatGPT | Dec 7, 2022