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This tutorial will help you understand task decomposition by guiding you through the process of creating a complex tree diagram that's too sophisticated for an AI tool to create at...

The previous post's focus was on creating release notes. See Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs. In this article, you'll learn how to use AI...

We recently read The MANIAC , by Benjamin Labatut in my AI Book Club . This was our first work of fiction, though much of the text is imagined biography, so not really traditional fiction. It reads more like a collection of short biographical facets, conn

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, held August 16, 2026. This was the club's first work of fiction, and much of the discussion is about what that mode makes possible: getting inside the madness of scienti

This week I attended Ai4 , promoted as the largest AI conference in North America. It was held at The Venetian in Las Vegas and lasted 3 days. The conference had more than 12,000 attendees (from 100 countries), 400 exhibitors/sponsors, 1,000 speakers, 700

In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Sarah Deaton , a technical writer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code docs, about what documentation work looks like when much of it is automated. We discuss orchestrating docs throug

I'm trying to build out a course on agent skills. For a while I've been looking for something more substantial and stable to sink my teeth into (similar to what I did with API documentation), and I think agent skills just might be it.

This is a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University. In this post, Jeremy explains why there's such a gap between industry practitioners and

This is Part II of a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt , an assistant professor at James Madison University. In this post, Jeremy transitions from describing the reasons for the gap between academics and practitioners (explained in Part I ) to solut

The thing I'm most excited about with AI lately is SKILLs. (I have to capitalize the word at first so you know I'm talking about agent skills rather than just general capabilities; however, I'll subsequently just refer to agent skills as skills.) I've now