#AI#TechnicalWriting#SoftwareDocumentation#Docs#GenerativeAI: "If it’s really true that tech writers spend only a small fraction (~20% of their time) writing, then introducing power tools that speed up writing isn’t going to replace the tech writer. At most, AI tools might make a tech writer 20% more productive. However, tech writers have a brand problem. Regardless of how much time we spend doing heads-down writing, most people think we sit around writing all day.
Some might think tech writers are stalling the AI implementation in an effort to deflect job replacement. I don’t think that’s the case. Nearly every tech writer group I meet is actively trying to identify where and how they can implement AI tools in a way that works. Most are scratching their heads, finding only a few odds-and-ends type of scenarios — not the core work. Especially at the senior tech writing level, most projects and bugs involve a level of ambiguity and complexity that’s not easy to automate by feeding instructions into a machine."
