This is a story of two content designers thrown together to solve the "simple" task of getting folks write better release notes and ending up as system architects shipping a solution that delivered cost savings while still managing to preserve craft quality.

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This talk "𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀?" explores what remains when AI takes on more of the production work: judgement, context, quality, strategy, and knowing when something is wrong or unfinished.

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Very excited to welcome 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 as a sponsor for our Write the Docs Australia conference in Melbourne, Dec 3-4.

Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with customers worldwide, 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 has been the leading independent email service since 1999.

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It covers the technical mistakes, the architecture decisions, the scope creep that somehow turned out to be useful, and what happens when a simple effort to modernise documentation gradually turns into a completely different way of thinking about content.

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The better your skill-making chops, the more powerful your automation can be.

In his presentation, Tom Johnson covers best practices for skill design, including skill and sub-skill structure, self-improving workflows, workflows involving multiple subagents.

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Publishing the full schedule for Write the Docs Australia coming up on Dec 3-4.

You’ve already seen our list of awesome speakers; now you can see when they will be presenting, and start planning your time across the main talks, lightning talks, and networking events.
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Super excited to announce speakers for our Write the Docs Australia conference, taking place in Melbourne, on Dec 3-4.
Tickets on sale now!

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Uladzislava Lahun - Silence Is Not Approval: When Better Docs Create More Feedback

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Elena Baskakova - Good Enough at Scale: Documentation Infrastructure Under Capacity Constraints

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Jen Buley - Structure after the fact: Bringing content strategy to existing docs for a design system

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Whitney Burkes - Writing Less, Owning More: The Shift in Technical Writing

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Hridyesh Bisht - Mapping Your Docs-as-Code Repository: Navigating the Architectural Evolution of Repositories

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Javier Rubio - Documenting APIs: new era, same craft

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Alexandra Klepper - Write inclusive, people-first language about AI

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to Dennis Dawson.

Kate Wilcox - Moonshot mindset: A tech writer's guide to thinking big and breaking free from the GDZ

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to @Dennis Dawson.

Tal Gluck - Proving and improving the value of your docs

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Sketchnote from WTD Berlin talk, thanks to @Dennis Dawson.

Kel Raleigh - Beyond Automation: Human Judgment as the Strategic Core of Business Writing

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This sums up the amazing experience of speaking at #WriteTheDocsBerlin.

Thank you to all the @writethedocs.bsky.social organizers, volunteers and participants ❤️🙏

#APIdocs #Docs-as-code #WriteTheDocs #Berlin

I regularly live-post from the #writethedocs conference in Portland, first on Twitter and then here. I get comments, online and in person, from people who appreciate my doing so but I miss the days when there was half a dozen other attendees doing the same thing.