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  • Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One - Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti and Tom Johnson)

    Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One - Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti and Tom Johnson)
    2026/01/25
    In this episode, Fabrizio and I discuss our predictions for tech comm in 2026, focusing on two posts: Fabrizio's My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030 and my 12 predictions for tech comm in 2026. Some of the specific topics we cover include the evolution of writers into automation engineers, the increasing necessity of systems thinking, the economic paradox where high tech valuations are contrasting with stagnant hiring, the risk of the Reverse Centaur dynamic (where humans merely approve AI output), and the growing value of authentic human connection and humanity.
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    1 時間 2 分
  • AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine

    AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine
    2026/01/24
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn, held Jan 18, 2026. Our discussion touches upon a variety of parallels between religion and AI, such as the black box nature of AI and the incomprehensibility of God's will, transhumanism and resurrection, predictive algorithms and free will, and more. This post also provides discussion questions, a transcript, and other resources.
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    56 分
  • Podcast: Writing as telepathy: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith

    Podcast: Writing as telepathy: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith
    2026/01/04
    In this episode, Fabrizio (passo.uno) and I talk with CT Smith, who writes on a blog at docsgoblin.com and works as a documentation lead for Payabli. Our conversation covers how CT uses AI tools like Claude in her documentation workflow, why she builds tooling that doesn't depend on AI, her many doc-related projects and experiments, and how she balances a tech writing career with an intentionally offline life in rural Tennessee. We also get into reading habits, the fear of skill atrophy from AI reliance, and where the tech writer role might be headed.
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    1 時間 10 分
  • AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence

    AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence
    2025/12/17
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick, held Dec 14, 2025. Our discussion touches upon a variety of topics, including the educator's lens, cautious optimism, the jagged frontier, personas, pedagogy, takeaways, and more. This post also provides discussion questions, a transcript, and terms and definitions from the book.
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    57 分
  • Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

    Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
    2025/11/30
    In this episode, Fabrizio (from passo.uno) and I discuss the concept of documentation theater with auto-generated wikis, why visual IDEs like Antigravity beat CLIs for writing, and the liberation vs. acceleration paradox where AI speeds up work but creates review bottlenecks. We also explore the dilemmas of labeling AI usage, why AI needs a good base of existing docs to function well, and how technical writers can stop doing plumbing work and start focusing on more high-value strategic initiatives instead (efforts that might push the limits of what AI can even do). This post also contains a lot of short...
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    1 時間
  • Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus

    Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus
    2025/11/22
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari, held Nov 16, 2025. Our discussion touches upon a variety of topics, including self-correcting mechanisms, alien intelligence, corporate surveillance, algorithms, doomerism, stories and lists, democracy, printing press, alignment, dictator's dilemma, and more. This post also provides discussion questions, a transcript, and terms and definitions from the book.
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    59 分
  • MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes -- podcast with Fabrizio Ferri Beneditti and Anandi Knuppel

    MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes -- podcast with Fabrizio Ferri Beneditti and Anandi Knuppel
    2025/10/26
    In this podcast episode, Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with guest Anandi Knuppel about MCP servers and the role that technical writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes. Anandi shares insights on how writers can optimize documentation for LLM performance and expands on opportunities to collaborate with developers around AI tools. Our discussion also touches on ways to automate style consistency in docs, and the future directions of technical writing given the abundance of AI tools, MCP servers, and the central role that language plays in it all.
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    1 時間 2 分
  • Recording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst

    Recording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst
    2025/10/26
    This is a recording of our AI book club discussion of Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, held Oct 19, 2025. The book differs from other books in the series in that it's a more technical exploration of how LLMs work, without any ethics discussions. It's less narrative and more engineering-oriented. Our discussion focuses on understanding of conceptual details and whether, to use an analogy, understanding the plane's engine helps pilots fly the airplane better.
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    1 時間