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The Not-Boring Tech Writer @thenotboringtechwriter.com · 13h

Technical writers are shapeshifters—we adapt to whatever the situation demands.

Listen to our latest episode with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti (@theletterf.bsky.social) on strategic thinking, his Seven-Action Documentation model, and growing as a tech writer in the AI era.

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.

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Marcus Olsson @marcusolsson.dev · Nov 20

Worst thing that's come out of generative AI?

All the utterly undeserved dunks on em and en dashes.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 5d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 6d

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garfield minus garfield — G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 6d

Very nice and clean approach to serving Markdown content to LLMs and AI agents: dev.to/lingodotdev/...

How to serve Markdown to AI agents: Making your docs more AI-friendly

Introduction If you've been on developer Twitter recently, you might have seen Bun's tweet...

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 6d

You'd consider me un-Italian, since I love pineapple pizza and cappuccino in the evenings. They'll withdraw my passport one of these days...

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 7d

"Good politics is just being strategic about relationships and influence in the service of good outcomes"

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Stop Avoiding Politics – Terrible Software

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 7d

I've created a Visual Studio Code extension to edit the Elastic Docs documentation. It's now open source!

github.com/elastic/elas...

GitHub - elastic/elastic-docs-vscode: Elastic Docs extension for Visual Studio Code

Elastic Docs extension for Visual Studio Code. Contribute to elastic/elastic-docs-vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Not-Boring Tech Writer @thenotboringtechwriter.com · 8d

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The Not-Boring Tech Writer: Growing as a technical writer in the AI era with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti. Have a listen:

Growing as a technical writer in the AI era with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

In this episode, I talk with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about moving...

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 7d

Wednesday really is the new Friday, don't you think? I'm exhausted by the time I get there!

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 8d

Labyrinth!

a woman is standing in front of a stone wall with the words `` ooh , what a lie '' written on the bottom .

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a stone wall with the words `` ooh , what a lie '' written on the bottom .

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 8d

To me, applying LLMs to style checking is like taming a bear into dancing a two hours ballet opera. It'll get distracted sooner or later and then bite you in the back.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

I'm Spidey, of course. Italian Spiderman.

Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

And The Best Comment Award for yesterday's post about the podcast @tomjoht.bsky.social and I just launched goes to...

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

I need to sit down and study MCP seriously now.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

The first episode of AI & Docs' podcast is live! idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast...

Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors

In this conversational podcast, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti (Passo.uno) and I talk about the impact of AI on the technical writing profession. We tackle the anxiety, seen and felt almost everywhere, but ...

idratherbewriting.com

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

Gonna get it in a few days and will probably wear it at Write the Docs.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

I think of Aikido when AI + docs worries surface. Aikido as in "don't block the attack, use it to disarm your opponent". Which, in our case, could be "Create guidelines to better generate docs using AI instead of forbidding its usage or avoiding the question". Bit realpolitik? You betcha.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 10d

The first episode of AI & Docs' podcast is live! idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast...

Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors

In this conversational podcast, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti (Passo.uno) and I talk about the impact of AI on the technical writing profession. We tackle the anxiety, seen and felt almost everywhere, but ...

idratherbewriting.com

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 11d

@tomjoht.bsky.social and I just recorded our first podcast. More news very soon! :)

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 11d

There's worse. I once stayed at a hotel where the toilet was separated from the bedroom by a wall of empty wine bottles.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 11d

Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you, by @tomjoht.bsky.social idratherbewriting.com/blog/strateg...

Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you

This past year, in the tech comm community, there’s been a lot of angst about job security with AI. In this post, I argue that our roles are shifting from writers to content directors. In this new rol...

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 12d

Preposition hell sounds a lot like English. Good thing my brain is an LLM.

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 12d

@martinjacobsen.no Am I crazy? :D

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