Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing can help you see the familiar environment around you in a new light.
Tools like ChatGPT are diminishing reliance on essay cheating services. This doesn't mean fewer students are cheating, though. In fact, cheating is likely more rampant with AI tools, and more students are losing the patience to write.
In this Q&A focused on switching from DITA to docs-as-code tools, specifically Docusaurus, technical writer Mikes Howes shares the considerations, deliberations, and tradeoffs when choosing and implementing a new authoring tool.
The following are tech comm links, articles, and thoughts for May 11, 2023.
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I’ve been as hyped about AI as others, but there’s one issue I can’t quite wrap my mind around: how do content creators benefit? The return on investment (ROI) seems to be missing. In my mind, this could be the element that bursts the AI hype bubble and reduces this technology from 'total disruptor' to 'cool innovation.'
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I updated my site analytics page for the 2022 year. I usually do this at the turn of the year, particularly when renewing ads on the site, but this year I got lazy and postponed it until last weekend. In this post, I talk about a variety of site-related challenges and issues, from content focus to monetization and more.
Last week I played around with Markprompt, integrating it in a basic way on my API doc site (click the Chat button). During the process, I had a few questions, mostly around how to optimize content for embedding. I asked the co-founder, Michael Fester, if he’d be up for a Q&A post, and he agreed. Our Q&A exchange covers everything covers everything from the history of Markprompt to strategies for links, analytics workflows, optimal page sizes, preventing hallucination, structure and semantics, branding, privacy, and more. If you’re looking to move toward integrating GPT-style chat into your docs, especially with Markprompt, this post might help clarify some details.
Here's a summary of the latest tech comm news for April 20, 2023.
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AI topics have saturated online posts ad nauseam, and I wouldn’t add yet another post to the endless list of speculative theorizing unless I believed I had a genuine light bulb moment. In this post, here's what I argue:–AI chat interfaces could become the primary user interface that people use to read documentation, not documentation websites themselves.–AI chats will enable novices to tackle more advanced tasks, leading to an explosion of technical innovation.–Documentation will provide the information source that AI chat engines need to respond to queries.–Both tech writers and machines will write the information source.
