Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

We might lose, but we'll put up one hell of a fight. We won't go with a whimper.

Fed 8 hours of AI office hours' transcripts to Cursor to create internal documentation for AI tooling for the team. Talk about brute-force. :)

RFC: Request for Claptrap.

We need to cross posturing with docs.

Docsturing.

a man says oh come on man in a dark room ALT: a man says oh come on man in a dark room

"GPT 5.4 is out!"
Me:

Neuromancer

Using OpenClaw is quite close to summoning Dixie Flatline. That's probably why I chose to call my OpenClaw "Dixie". (Not sure if @greatdismal.bsky.social would approve, though.)

This is human earned context in an academic setting. 😆

This is why I like Git version control & ‘git blame’ for understanding the writing/drafting process.

Me too...

I explained to my wife, who is a doctor, what our role looks like in this AI transformation thus. She panicked, so I think she understood.

Imagine that software developers create a nurse robot that knows how to provide drugs only based on its model knowledge, which might be outdated, wrong, hallucinated, or based on the wrong criteria. We writers are the doctors and need to speak up so that the robot doesn’t harm patients.

The AI tooling scene is more thrilling than watching a K-drama series.

The very definition of frolicking.

Yummi

Closed my Mastodon account for various reasons. I'll focus on this one from now on.

I'm afraid the only way to get them to change their ways is by creating skills that work better than theirs, based on docs principles.

New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs At the end of The writing was always the cheap part, I alluded to the fact that tech writers need to pick up new habits and skills, but didn’t dig into what that entails. These days, any LLM can put t...

Wrote something based on what I'm currently doing and promoting at work. Strong overlap with @tomjoht.bsky.social and Dachary Carey's recent posts, which I take as a good sign. passo.uno/new-habits-t...

Feeling slightly upset as I see developers coming up with Agentic "helpers" fed by docs whose provenance, quality, and maintenance is unknown, eager to just use context as some sort of agentic boilerplate.

If you waaaant!

Docs cartridge

This is one of the possible futures of technical documentation. In some ways, it's already the present.

The writing was always the cheap part Last December, quite unrealistically, I took a solemn oath: I would not write again about AI for at least another year. I was growing tired with the incessant noise, the lack of stability, and the sel...

Good docs require friction, tension, and truth.

passo.uno/real-cost-of...

The writing was always the cheap part Last December, quite unrealistically, I took a solemn oath: I would not write again about AI for at least another year. I was growing tired with the incessant noise, the lack of stability, and the sel...

Inspired by one of @simonwillison.net 's reflections, I wrote a piece on the real cost of technical writing and documentation.

passo.uno/real-cost-of...

The writing was always the cheap part Last December, quite unrealistically, I took a solemn oath: I would not write again about AI for at least another year. I was growing tired with the incessant noise, the lack of stability, and the sel...

Inspired by one of @simonwillison.net 's reflections, I wrote a piece on the real cost of technical writing and documentation.

passo.uno/real-cost-of...

Citroen CX

Every time I listen to Jean Michel Jarre's Equinoxe, I picture myself driving a Citroen CX over a laser grid with a panther on the backseat. Here, I asked Gemini to take a stab at it.

If you're not following @joanwestenberg.com here and elsewhere, you're missing out big time.

Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion The "agentic swarm" vision of productivity is comfortingly familiar. Which should be an immediate red flag... You take the existing corporate hierarchy, you replace the bottom layers with a swarm of AI agents, and you keep humans around as supervisors. It's an org chart with robots instead of interns. The

The “swarm of agents” model assumes work naturally splits into roles: marketing, sales, support, development = basically mirroring human job titles.

But those titles and siloes are a byproduct of org scaling, not a universal truth about work.

www.joanwestenberg.com/agentic-swa...

In a good way. Best slides assistant.

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...

"You're the frameworks-and-mental-models person, not the tutorials person." —Claude, about me.

Why did you think so, BTW? :)

I wish.