Recently I prompted Claude to generate a new-feature changelog based on docs and past changelog examples. I wasn’t impressed with the results for the most part.| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
Here’s a short video tour of how I’ve configured Claude with style guides and a knowledge base to automate some of my more formulaic developer advocate tutorials for my client Sensible.| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
Recently, I experimented with asking an AI to write reference docs for a custom extension to a rather niche, obscure scripting language (JsonLogic).| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
I’m already using LLMs in my docs writing process in an ad-hoc way, and I strongly suspect that LLMs will be a core, structured part of my docs writing tools in the near future. Doc platforms like theneo already advertise the capacity to generate API docs for you with LLMs. (Note to self: I’ve got to test out theneo soon!)| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
I’ve been meaning to learn Mermaid diagram syntax for a while; I know it would greatly empower and simplify my diagram creation process. But it stayed on the backburner recently until I had a need and realized Chat GPT is now multimodal.| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
Recently I investigated migrating from the Readme docs platform to Mintlify for one of my clients, Sensible. I’ll briefly record my impressions here:| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
One of my pleasures as a founding writer a startups is restructuring the docs as the product improves. Self-serve developer tools are fun to document, because well designed product-lead growth features usually lead to more beautiful docs that are satisfyingly to revise.| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
I’m currently writing some SDK docs from scratch, and it got me thinking about my wishlist for LLM-powered doc-authoring tools for SDKs and APIs. Ignoring questions of current feasibility and in no particular order, I’d love to see:| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
I’m documenting advanced prompt configuration for LLMs quite a bit these days, and so I thought I’d share a small tip for using LLMs to actually write the docs.| Developer experience consultant and technical writer
Recently I investigated a few AI-powered tools for writing developer documentation. My investigation was prompted by two things:| Developer experience consultant and technical writer