AI for Technical Writers

Welcome to episode 058 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode! Today’s episode reviews an article by Emily Forlini entitled "What Is Agentic AI? White-Collar Robots Are Here, For Better or Worse" that was published in PC Magazine on January 15, 2025. Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this insightful article from Forlini and the coming wave of AI agents and the benefits and challenges that they will present. They unpack this educational article and give tangible advice to technical writers and documentation specialists about how best to prepare for a world populated by AI agents and agentic AI. They explain how this tech will bring many pros and cons and how tech writers, businesses, and society overall can leverage this new form of AI. >> Read the original Forlini article: https://tinyurl.com/389sjtc4 >> Read the Curt Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/4x9ksd2s >> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/7xbzkrph >> Read the Robbins article "The Eight Pillars of Technical Writing: https://tinyurl.com/3bvnb7jr >> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/4fbmsmm2

Welcome to episode 057 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode! Today’s episode reviews a blog article by the World Bank entitled "From Chalkboards to Chatbots: Transforming Learning in Nigeria, One Prompt at a Time" that was published on January 9, 2025. Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this insightful article from the World Bank that summarizes a recent six-week study in Nigeria about how AI can help students learn more efficiently and faster. The study found that improvements were experienced by all students, not just the most productive or motivated. It also found that AI seemed to eliminate any gender differences, with both males and females gaining roughly equal learning benefit from the use of AI. >> Read the original World Bank blog article: https://tinyurl.com/38z5n28e >> Read the Curt Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/4x9ksd2s >> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/7xbzkrph >> Read the Robbins article "The Eight Pillars of Technical Writing: https://tinyurl.com/3bvnb7jr >> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/4fbmsmm2

Welcome to episode 056 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode! Today’s episode reviews an article by Damien Desfontaines, a senior scientist at Tumult Labs in Zurich, Switzerland entitled "Five Things Privacy Experts Know About AI" that was published on January 13, 2025. Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this insightful article from Desfontaines and how LLMs and AI may be violating privacy rights, particularly large LLMs where protecting privacy becomes more challenging. They unpack Desfontaines' recent observations and look at the world of AI privacy and security through the lens of technical writers and documentation experts. >> Read the original Desfontaines article: https://tinyurl.com/49k7fxcp >> Read the Curt Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/4x9ksd2s >> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/7xbzkrph >> Read the Robbins article "The Eight Pillars of Technical Writing: https://tinyurl.com/3bvnb7jr >> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/4fbmsmm2

Welcome to episode 055 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode! Today’s show reviews an article written by Max Woolf, a Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco, entitled "Can LLMs Write Better Code If You Keep Asking Them to 'Write Better Code'?" that he published on January 2. Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this educational and unique article from Woolf and how he used the Claude LLM from Anthropic to experiment with iterative prompting in an attempt to improve the speed and quality of the software code he was developing. They describe the strategies employed by Woolf and how he achieved his goal of improved code. However, they also unpack his observations of how the code began featuring problems as it became more complex, later in the prompt iteration cycle. >> Read the original Woolf article: https://tinyurl.com/bddh5scs >> Read the Curt Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/4x9ksd2s >> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/7xbzkrph >> Read the Robbins article "The Eight Pillars of Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/yc82z25j