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Technical writing, AI, and docs engineering by Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti.

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123 from 1 Jan 2001 to 29 Oct 2026
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2026 28

  1. Rethinking the tech writing portfolio in the AI age
  2. Conventions used on this site
  3. Living House: Adaptive UI and docs using in-browser inference
  4. Episode XI of Phase One: Why docs still need an owner, with CT Smith
  5. Tech needs humanists more than ever
  6. Episode X of Phase One: Agent traffic, llms.txt, and the solitude problem
  7. Does whispering to agents in docs help?
  8. Episode IX of Phase One: Orchestrating docs, AI accuracy, and the pipeline writer
  9. Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age
  10. You can write in LLMese, but you don’t have to
  11. Feed the machines, then guide the humans
  12. Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
  13. Episode VIII of Phase One: Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop
  14. Behind the Docs: The Future of Docs Is More Human Than You Think
  15. What I've learned designing agentic workflows for docs
  16. Most vibe-coded tools are not for you
  17. What makes docs beautiful?
  18. Episode VII of Phase One: Skills, agentic workflows, and the tinker's burden
  19. High fantasy map of tech writing (AI edition)
  20. In the team of the future, roles are verbs, not nouns
  21. Episode VI of Phase One: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge
  22. Skills are docs, and docs need tech writers
  23. New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs
  24. The writing was always the cheap part
  25. Episode V of Phase One: Tech comm predictions for 2026
  26. The four modes of AI-augmented technical writing
  27. To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  28. Episode IV of AI & Docs: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life

2025 28

  1. My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030
  2. Episode III of AI & Docs: Docs theater and the acceleration paradox
  3. Code wikis are documentation theater as a service
  4. You need an AI policy for your docs
  5. Failing Well: A Practical Guide to Growth for Technical Writers
  6. Episode II of AI & Docs: MCP and the role of tech writers
  7. Why I built an MCP server to check my docs (and what it taught me)
  8. [Podcast] Growing as a technical writer in the AI era
  9. First episode of the AI & Docs podcast is out!
  10. When docs become performance art, everybody loses
  11. The future is open: Answering the most common tech writing worries
  12. Contributing a verse: When users become documentation authors
  13. AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators
  14. Webinar: What's Wrong with AI Generated Docs
  15. How I write docs quickly
  16. Things technical writers shouldn't care about... yet
  17. Conjuring digital companions: How I'm thinking better through AI
  18. On finding time to write (this is not productivity advice)
  19. Beyond Content Types: A Human-first Model for Technical Documentation
  20. How to grow as a technical writer
  21. Own the prompt: Build your own tech writing tools using LLMs
  22. Update to my tech writing gear and tools
  23. What's wrong with AI-generated docs
  24. Technical writing has a depth issue
  25. Technical English is nobody's mother tongue
  26. My time machine runs on technical writing
  27. Should you write documentation differently for LLMs?
  28. The Seven-Action Documentation model

2024 22

  1. My technical writing predictions for 2025
  2. The best docs are the ones we don’t remember
  3. FAQs are not the answer
  4. [Podcast] Your docs are your infrastructure
  5. Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means)
  6. How I'm using AI as a technical writer
  7. What docs as code really means
  8. Webinar: Contributing to Open Source Documentation Projects
  9. TypeSpec reminds us why OpenAPI exists in the first place
  10. Failing (and surviving failure) as a technical writer
  11. Discussing Markdown and structured content with Niklas Begley
  12. How to set up your tech writer up for success
  13. Contributing to open source docs as a technical writer
  14. Review of Technical Writing for Software Developers
  15. Technical writing is not a dead-end job, it's a landing pad
  16. Things I remind myself when working with others
  17. My favorite books for tech writers
  18. The pros and cons of using Markdown
  19. Technical writing in 2049
  20. What to do when you're feeling AI anxiety as a tech writer
  21. Signs that you need a technical writer
  22. Docs observability, or measuring docs inside a product-docs system

2023 16

  1. What tech writers can learn from video game manuals
  2. Tips for hiring your first technical writer
  3. Chat with Tom Johnson about AI and tech comms
  4. My favorite tech writing tools
  5. Bestiary: On Doc Types and Other Animals
  6. Once Upon a Time There Were... Docs
  7. Tips for job hunting as a technical writer
  8. An experiment in humorous documentation
  9. A tech writer's letter to software developers
  10. How did I become a technical writer
  11. Docs-as-code topologies
  12. Episode 33 of API the Docs podcast
  13. We need more technical writing in popular culture
  14. High fantasy map of technical writing
  15. My technical writing gear (how I work)
  16. Hiring technical writers in a ChatGPT world

2022 16

  1. The rise of WriterBot
  2. How to become a technical writer
  3. Learning to code as a technical writer
  4. My first children’s book is about... OpenTelemetry
  5. Circles of Product Truth
  6. Docs Hierarchy of Priorities: A Proposal
  7. Tech Writing Skills Tree
  8. Measure it till you make it
  9. A love letter to technical writing
  10. Let's blog more about technical writing
  11. How to introduce prose linters at your workplace
  12. Do it yourself: User research for technical documentation
  13. Markdoc is not what you expected, and that's a good thing
  14. Technical writing syllabus
  15. Episode 3 of Let's Talk Docs
  16. Why I collect and read old computer manuals

2021 9

  1. An update to my tips for working remotely
  2. Better docs, less pain: the case for new docs-as-code standards
  3. The Columbo Technique for Technical Writers
  4. How to assist API design as a technical writer
  5. OpenAI and docs: AI-aided technical writing is here to stay
  6. Open source tools for REST API documentation
  7. On personality in technical writing
  8. First steps with the Vale prose linter
  9. Levels of embedded documentation

2020 1

  1. Working with remote teams: My Tips

2019 1

  1. What is technical writing?

2001 1

  1. Ask Fabrice

Undated 1

  1. Glossary