AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson
This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson, held October 18, 2026. Ratings ranged from two stars to five, but most of the group agreed the book made AI warfare feel immediate rather than futuristic. We talk about how much of the kill chain is information work long before anyone fires a weapon, moral injury among remote operators, the habit of clicking allow on every permission prompt, who's to blame when an AI-identified target turns out to be a school, AI-driven propaganda, bureaucracy as a safeguard, and what a book like this can't tell us. Read more »
Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM
In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with CT Smith about her new book, WTFM: A Practical Guide for Standing Up Docs at a Startup. We discuss why docs need a human owner even when anyone can generate content with AI, how CT kept her voice by writing the book herself in Neovim, the layered pipeline of Vale hooks, skills, model reviews, and sandbox fixtures that lets Claude Code handle about 40% of her tickets, the risk of gradual disempowerment, and why systems thinking matters most in a first docs hire. Read more »
How I turn my API doc course into a PDF and sell it on Buy Me a Coffee
My API documentation course is free on the web, but I also sell a PDF version of it through Buy Me a Coffee. This post walks through each step of how I turn about 170 web pages into a 975-page PDF with chapter files, including the print configuration, layout, CSS, table of contents, Prince build, chapter splitting, file hosting, and the Buy Me a Coffee setup. This post is mainly a technical how-to in case anyone else wants to do something similar. Read more »
Mastering API Documentation with AI (Sponsor)
Mark Wentowski is teaching his live API documentation course again this fall at docsgeek.io. It is his course, on his own site — separate from the API doc course here.
The fall cohort starts October 19: seven 90-minute classes, Mondays 8:00–9:30am PT, running through November 23. Recordings come with every enrollment if you cannot make a session live. New this time is an optional AI add-on, where you use Claude to draft API flow guides and OpenAPI descriptions, then validate the output against the live API.
Code TOMAPIS takes $250 off. See the full syllabus and schedule. Enrollments through that code earn me a commission.
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