--- title: "AI and tech comm" description: "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: {% for p in site.categories.ai %} For AI agents: a documentation index is available at https://idratherbewriting.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of all pages are available by appending .md to any page URL. # 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: #### [AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-stern-i-am-not-a-robot) | Sep 20, 2026 #### [Six new books in tech comm: a roundup](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/new-books-tech-comm-2026) | Sep 7, 2026 #### [Buying a car in the age of AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/buying-a-car-in-age-of-ai) | Sep 7, 2026 #### [Writing for an audience of agents — podcast with Ethan Palm from Mintlify](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-ethan-palm-agent-traffic) | Sep 2, 2026 #### [Review of The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut -- thoughts on logic and the end of play](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/review-maniac-labatut-rationality-end-of-play) | Aug 20, 2026 #### [AI Book Club recording of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/the-maniac-labatut-ai-book-club) | Aug 16, 2026 #### [Reflections on Ai4 conference - some absences from a tech writer's POV](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai4-conference-reflections-tw) | Aug 9, 2026 #### [Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-deaton-anthropic-tw-automation) | Aug 2, 2026 #### [Building out a course on agent skills](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/course-on-skills) | Jul 21, 2026 #### [The gap between academic and industry technical writing: What it is, why it exists, why it's important, and what we can do about it (Part II)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/gap-between-industry-and-academia-tw-part2) | Jul 12, 2026 #### [The gap between academic and industry technical writing: What it is, why it exists, why it's important, and what we can do about it (Part I)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/gap-between-industry-and-academia-tw-part1) | Jul 12, 2026 #### [Tom's opinionated guide to skill building 101](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/all-about-skills-intro) | Jun 30, 2026 #### [AI Book Club discussion of The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-infinity-machine-mallaby) | Jun 28, 2026 #### [Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/judging-beautiful-docs-ai-fatigue-podcast) | May 31, 2026 #### [Review of Max Tegmark's 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-review-tegmark-life-3-0-ai) | May 17, 2026 #### [Developing internal skills for recurring documentation processes like release notes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/internal-skills-release-docs) | May 4, 2026 #### [Frenetic thinking](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/frenetic-thinking-vs-careful-measured-analysis) | Apr 26, 2026 #### [Some thoughts after using AI to help with taxes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/taxes-thoughts-using-ai) | Apr 20, 2026 #### [Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-skills-agentic-workflows-larah-fabrizio) | Apr 12, 2026 #### [The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/cyborg-model-emerging-talk) | Apr 5, 2026 #### [Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/will-tech-writers-survive-ai-academics-nupoor-jeremy) | Mar 21, 2026 #### [AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-book-club-if-anyone-builds-it) | Mar 17, 2026 #### [Recording of Automation Engineering 101 for Tech Docs presentation at WTD West Coast Supermeetup](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/auto-engineering-101-presentation-wtd) | Mar 12, 2026 #### [Cracking the code on corporate visibility](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/cracking-the-code-on-corp-visibility) | Mar 8, 2026 #### [Podcast: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-silva-guardians-of-knowledge) | Mar 8, 2026 #### [Nobody knows what it will look like in 2 years](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/nobody-knows-two-years-from-now) | Mar 3, 2026 #### [10 principles of the cyborg technical writer -- brief notes and bullet points on how to use AI to augment your role](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/10-principles-of-cyborg-technical-writer) | Feb 27, 2026 #### [World Brain: No Experts podcast - Three tech writers and a photographer walk into a bar (with Tom Johnson and Floyd Jones)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/world-brain-no-experts-podcast-guest) | Feb 25, 2026 #### [Using curiosity to decenter](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/using-curiosity-to-decenter) | Feb 16, 2026 #### [AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/careless-people-wynn-williams-ai-book-club) | Feb 16, 2026 #### [Bakhtin and model collapse: How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/bakhtin-collapse-ai-expressive-writing) | Jan 30, 2026 #### [Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/predictions-2026-tech-comm-podcast) | Jan 25, 2026 #### [AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-book-club-god-human-animal-machine) | Jan 24, 2026 #### [Podcast: Writing as telepathy: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-tools-automation-ct-smith) | Jan 4, 2026 #### [Book review of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'—why AI doom isn't as visceral as nuclear war](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-review-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies) | Jan 3, 2026 #### [12 predictions for tech comm in 2026](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/tech-comm-predictions-for-2026) | Jan 1, 2026 #### [A hodgepodge of ideas spewing in my head](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/hodgepodge-of-ideas-in-my-head) | Dec 26, 2025 #### [AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-review-co-intelligence-mollick) | Dec 17, 2025 #### [The isolation and loneliness of tech writing may get worse as AI accelerates](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/isolation-loneliness-worsens-with-ai) | Dec 4, 2025 #### [Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/nexus-harari-ai-book-club) | Nov 22, 2025 #### [Troubleshooting build processes with a fix-it mindset](https://idratherbewriting.com/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"](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/review-harari-nexus-scms-and-alien-intelligence) | Nov 15, 2025 #### [The difficulty of tracking and interpreting AI usage labels](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/gen-ai-techcomm-evolving-future) | Nov 6, 2025 #### [Changing the AI narrative from liberation to acceleration](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-narrative-from-liberation-to-acceleration) | Nov 3, 2025 #### [Medium CEO explains how AI is changing writing](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/stubblebine-how-ai-is-changing-writing) | Oct 30, 2025 #### [Making it easy for people to review your changelists (Doc bug zero series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-hands-on-llms) | Oct 26, 2025 #### [Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-fabri-tom-sept-episode-1) | Sep 28, 2025 #### [Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-empire-of-ai) | Sep 22, 2025 #### [Defining bug zero and two obstacles: Reducing review time and gathering context](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/defining-bug-zero-and-obstacles) | Aug 26, 2025 #### [Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-lee-ai-superpowers) | Aug 19, 2025 #### [Recording of Coffee and Content episode: What's wrong with AI-generated docs?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/whats-wrong-ai-webinar-recording) | Aug 10, 2025 #### [Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/evolution-techcomm-fabrice-lacroix-podcast) | Jul 5, 2025 #### [Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/plurality-of-ai-attitudes-experiences) | Jun 29, 2025 #### [AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/kurzweil-singularity-ai-book-club-recording-notes) | Jun 15, 2025 #### [The problem with single-sourced docs when fact checking with AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/is-single-sourcing-over) | Jun 9, 2025 #### [The allure of iterative improvement loops (AI experiments)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/allure-of-the-loop) | Jun 5, 2025 #### [My first vibecoding project (AI experiments)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/my-first-vibecoding-project) | Jun 4, 2025 #### [API quick reference guides (and the challenges of passing long content into AI contexts)](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/suleyman-the-coming-wave-notes) | May 17, 2025 #### [Reflections on the WTD Portland 2025 conference](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/wtd-conf-2025-reflections) | May 11, 2025 #### [AI-powered Enterprise Knowledge Platforms: Fluid Topics Q&A with Fabrice Lacroix](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/fluid-topics-ai-strategy-qa-fabrice) | May 11, 2025 #### [API quick reference diagrams and my upcoming AI the Docs presentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-quick-reference-guides) | May 11, 2025 #### [I feel like I’ve seen the future today](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/seen-the-future-document-authoring-api) | Apr 30, 2025 #### [New article added to API documentation site: Document360 for API docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/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'](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/jonathan-warner-more-than-words-book-review) | Mar 20, 2025 #### [I'm starting an AI Book Club](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-book-club-human-in-the-loop) | Mar 11, 2025 #### [Countering AGI with superintelligent docs?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/superintelligent-docs) | Mar 9, 2025 #### [Links from around the web: vibecoding, 60-hour work weeks, smaller internet communities, ethical compromises, and expertise](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-vibecoding-60-hours-small-communities) | Mar 2, 2025 #### [Do developers need code samples in API documentation?](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/recursive-self-improvement-complex-tasks) | Feb 24, 2025 #### [Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/divided-highways-technoutopian-disillusionment) | Feb 22, 2025 #### [Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-eroding-slow-mode) | Feb 9, 2025 #### [Using AI with issue tracking systems (prompt engineering series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-with-issue-trackers-prompt-eng) | Jan 26, 2025 #### [My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/trends-predictions-2025-tech-comm) | Jan 5, 2025 #### [Using AI to mine log messages from reference doc builds (Prompt engineering series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-to-mine-log-messages) | Dec 19, 2024 #### [AI stream journaling experiment](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-stream-journaling-experiment) | Dec 17, 2024 #### [Biohacking your glucose with AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/biohacking-your-glucose-with-ai) | Dec 17, 2024 #### [Using AI to design landing pages (prompt engineering series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-landing-pages) | Nov 17, 2024 #### [Why designing landing pages is hard](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/designing-landing-pages) | 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](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/unpacking-issues-from-ai-porter-benedetti-posts) | Nov 11, 2024 #### [From engineer interviews to written draft, with chain of thought reasoning](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-iterative-chain-of-thought) | Nov 3, 2024 #### [NotebookLM podcasts -- the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/notebooklm-podcasts-and-technical-writing) | Oct 6, 2024 #### [[Podcast] GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/genai-and-document360) | Oct 6, 2024 #### [Using AI to jump-start code samples](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-jump-start-code-samples) | Sep 29, 2024 #### [Two days in my life as a technical writer, followed by reflection and analysis of fragmenting microtasks](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/two-days-in-life-as-technical-writer-reflection) | Sep 8, 2024 #### [Podcast: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-task-decomposition-diagrams) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Podcast: Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-long-token-contexts) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Podcast: Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-release-notes-file-diffs) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-doc-templates) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Podcast: Gathering source material for context input](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-gather-source-material) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Podcast: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-meeting-notes) | Jul 28, 2024 #### [Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/long-token-contexts-entire-doc-sets) | Jul 15, 2024 #### [Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/seeing-invisible-and-avoiding-predictive-thought) | Jun 26, 2024 #### [Automate links in your release notes using AI (prompt engineering)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/automating-linking-with-ai) | Jun 26, 2024 #### [[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/value-techcomm-zoomin-podcast) | May 30, 2024 #### [[Prompt engineering series] Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-release-notes-from-file-diffs) | May 25, 2024 #### [Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer's little experiment — guest post by Diana Cheung](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/deliberate-ai-practice-diana-cheung) | Apr 23, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering series: Creating scripts to automate doc build processes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/scripts-to-automate-doc-builds) | Apr 21, 2024 #### [What should your documentation metrics look like? Q&A with Zoomin about their 2024 Technical Content Benchmark Report](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/benchmark-report-documentation-metrics-from-zoomin) | Apr 14, 2024 #### [AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-is-accelerating-me) | Apr 14, 2024 #### [Upcoming conference: AI the API docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-the-api-docs-conference-preso) | Apr 3, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering series: Gathering source input](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/gathering-source-input-prompt-engineering) | Mar 20, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering series: Error checking the output](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/error-checking-the-output-prompt-engineering) | Mar 20, 2024 #### [Integrating AI with your content delivery platform and documentation: Zoomin Q&A with Keren Brown](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/zoomin-ai-integration-question-and-answer) | Mar 18, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering series: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-engineering-reverse-engineering) | Mar 4, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-engineering-populating-documentation-templates) | Mar 4, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/task-decomposition-prompt-engineering-series) | Feb 20, 2024 #### [Prompt engineering: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/summarizing-meeting-notes-amplifying-visibility) | Feb 20, 2024 #### [Visualizing APIs with tree diagrams, partly generated with AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/task-decomposition-tree-diagram-example) | Feb 13, 2024 #### [Walking and chatting with ChatGPT](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/walking-and-chatting-with-chatgpt) | Jan 21, 2024 #### [Moved AI pages into their own collection and space](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/move-ai-pages-into-dedicated-space) | Jan 20, 2024 #### [[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-documentation-course-uw-bob-watson) | Jan 5, 2024 #### [My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/2024-tech-comm-trends-and-predictions) | Jan 1, 2024 #### [Etto, a new AI co-pilot for Heretto — Q&A with Casey Jordan](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/heretto-etto-question-and-answer-with-casey-jordan) | Dec 18, 2023 #### [Webinar recording: Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/stc-webinar-experiments-use-cases-ai) | Dec 13, 2023 #### [30+ ways I’m using AI in everyday writing life as a technical writer, blogger, and curious human](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/all-the-ways-im-using-ai-tools-in-everyday-life) | Dec 4, 2023 #### [Podcast: The evolution of podcasting, with Ed Marsh](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/evolution-of-podcasting-podcast-ed-marsh) | Dec 3, 2023 #### [You've heard of 'Docs as code' -- Now get ready for 'Code as docs': Q&A with Speakeasy](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/speakeasy-question-answer-code-as-docs) | Nov 9, 2023 #### [Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/research-with-ai-dealing-with-fake-research) | Nov 9, 2023 #### [My experience trying to write original, full-length human-sounding articles using Claude AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/writing-full-length-articles-with-claude-ai) | Oct 25, 2023 #### [Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-chat-fabrizio-podcast) | Oct 20, 2023 #### [[Podcast] AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-apis-what-works-and-doesnt-video-recording-podcast) | Oct 14, 2023 #### [Forrester Report, Coding jobs, Hyper-personalization, RFPs, Call center replacement (Oct 9, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-oct-9) | Oct 9, 2023 #### [What I learned in using AI for planning and prioritization: Content strategy might be safe from automation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/content-strategy-safe-from-automation) | Oct 6, 2023 #### [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) | Oct 5, 2023 #### [Embracing professional redefinition](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/embracing-professional-redefinition) | Oct 3, 2023 #### [Documentation failures, Bestiaries, AI Explain post mortem, Inside TechComm podcast (Oct 3, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-web-oct3-2023) | Oct 2, 2023 #### [New article: AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-and-apis-what-works-and-doesnt) | Sep 28, 2023 #### [Claude versus ChatGPT -- and a few thoughts on using AI chatbots on an Alaskan cruise](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/comparing-claude-vs-chatgpt-on-an-alaskan-cruise) | Sep 18, 2023 #### [Alphadoc: Build API documentation that tells your API's story](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/alphadoc-question-and-answer) | Sep 17, 2023 #### [New API course topic: Using AI for summaries](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-for-summaries) | Sep 7, 2023 #### [Links from around the web (Sept 5, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-sept5-2023) | Sep 5, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI for glossary definitions](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-glossaries-defs) | Sep 4, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI for comparison tasks with API responses](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/using-ai-for-comparison-tasks) | Aug 28, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-thematic-analysis) | Aug 28, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI for language advice](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-for-language-advice) | Aug 9, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI to create doc updates based on bugs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-create-doc-bug-updates) | Aug 9, 2023 #### [New API doc course topic: Using AI to learn coding](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-to-learn-coding) | Jul 25, 2023 #### [New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-tools-writing-build-and-publish-scripts) | Jul 19, 2023 #### [New topic in API doc course: AI document engineering with pattern-based prompts](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-document-engineering-patterns) | Jul 6, 2023 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