I'd Rather Be Writing podcast

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Videos for the podcasts on https://idratherbewriting.com, which covers topics related to technical writing, API documentation, AI, content strategy, develope...

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AI Book Club discussion recording of Breakneck China's Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan Wang

How valuable are agent skills Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession Cyborg Technical Writers

Will tech writers survive AI Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt

AI Book Club recording of If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

Podcast Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva

AI Book Club recording of our discussion of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Tech comm predictions for 2026 - Tom Johnson and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

AI Book Club Recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn

Writing as telepathy AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- podcast w CT Smith

AI Book Club discussion of Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence Living and Working with AI

Why AI can't replace the holistic technical writer

Redefining productivity metrics in the age of AI

AI writing starting from a good documentation base

The good enough trap of AI-generated documentation

Communicating the value of technical writing to the C-suite in the AI era

The dilemma of disclosing AI usage in technical writing

Unblocking technical writers and verifying accuracy with AI

Trusting intuition and maintaining pull request hygiene with AI content

Breaking the bottleneck of the review process with AI

Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox (podcast episode 3)

Discussion of Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari -- AI Book Club

Recording of AI Book Club session on Hands-on Large Language Models

AI tool customization challenges

AI workflows with coding & documentation tools

APIs tools, & LLMs the wild west of abstraction

Editing AI slop

Navigating AI in technical writing

Optimizing documentation for LLMs

MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes