If you’re a technical writer creating changelogs or release notes, AI can save you a huge amount of time. Traditionally, this work involves digging through repositories, reviewing code changes, checking JIRA tickets, and speaking with subject matter experts, just to understand what’s changed and what matters for documentation. This is the kind of task AI… Read more »
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5 reasons why the future of software development is less coding, more documentation
tldr: Software development is evolving rapidly. The industry is moving from manual coding to AI-assisted development and automation. This creates unprecedented documentation needs. Documentation is shifting from a “nice-to-have” to a critical requirement for product success. Here are five reasons why the future of software development is less coding, more documentation. 1. The move towards… Read more »
Screenshots of policy and procedure management AI apps
Here are screenshots of some of the apps we’ve developed for our “Managing and maintaining policy and procedure documents with AI” course (and for use on future policy and procedures writing projects). Policy audit simulator An AI-driven app that simulates an audit of policy and procedure documents. Procedure to training content converter An app that… Read more »
Podcast 112: Nobody ever wants to buy software, with Toby Chapman-Dawe
Ellis talked to Toby Chapman Dawe of Strand UK about why he claims nobody ever wants to buy software. Toby is Managing Director of Strand. Toby specialises in communicating the business benefits of enterprise technology. Formerly a journalist in the UK writing for trade and national press, Toby transferred to the world of advertising in… Read more »
Antora as an intranet platform
Antora is a fairly new open source static site generator, aimed at Technical Authors who prefer writing in AsciiDoc than Markdown. SitePoint describes a static site generator as: A compromise between using a hand-coded static site and a full CMS (such as WordPress or Confluence). You generate an HTML-only website using raw data (such as… Read more »