We fired our professional tech writers. They've been using AI all the time (with horrible results), and were basically incapable of tech writing without it at all.
Looking for tech writers on the market is nigh impossible. Even people with decent portfolio tend to be very bad at their job.
The only good option now is to hire a software developer to do the writing. There's a decent amount of them who have experience with that. Obviously devs won't like to have it on their CV instead of proper development.
Honestly this is a catastrophe. If you're firing a tech writer that writes something even semi-decent, you're ruining your business.
Reminder: AI is only good at things that existed in bulk during its training, such as README files, configs that always look the same (package.json, dockerfile), and tests. The documentation for your product, or for products of that kind, or even in general, either never existed, or not such a commodity to have AI generate it well.
We fired our professional tech writers. They've been using AI all the time (with horrible results), and were basically incapable of tech writing without it at all.
Looking for tech writers on the market is nigh impossible. Even people with decent portfolio tend to be very bad at their job.
The only good option now is to hire a software developer to do the writing. There's a decent amount of them who have experience with that. Obviously devs won't like to have it on their CV instead of proper development.
Honestly this is a catastrophe. If you're firing a tech writer that writes something even semi-decent, you're ruining your business.
Reminder: AI is only good at things that existed in bulk during its training, such as README files, configs that always look the same (package.json, dockerfile), and tests. The documentation for your product, or for products of that kind, or even in general, either never existed, or not such a commodity to have AI generate it well.