I’m Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, a technical writer based in Barcelona, Spain.| passo.uno
We all want to do a good job. Some of us also want to get better at our craft for a number of reasons, either practical or slightly delusional. Those include getting a raise, strengthening our résume, or simply ending the day with a fragile feeling of satisfaction after surviving failure for the nth time. They’re all good goals, though the ways of achieving them are not always straightforward. Moreover, the path to career growth is riddled with self-doubt and impostor syndrome.| passo.uno
In what is tantamount to a vulgar display of power, social media has been flooded with AI-generated images that mimic the style of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime. Something similar happens daily with tech writing, folks happily throwing context at LLMs and thinking they can vibe write outstanding docs out of them, perhaps even surpassing human writers. Well, it’s time to draw a line. Don’t let AI influencers studioghiblify your work as if it were a matter of processing text.| passo.uno
Writing for LLMs is the new SEO obsession. Not a day passes without seeing some question popping up in tech writing communities about how to best compose content for AI scrapers. Folks even wonder if a different style guide should be necessary, or whether tables should be avoided because they’ve seen a pull request rejected in a Microsoft repository on the silliest grounds.| passo.uno