I'd Rather Be Writing, by Tom Johnson

In the past couple of months, my focus as a tech writer has shifted from writing to building machines, which in reality are elaborate skills that do things. One skill triages incoming bugs and website feedback on an hourly schedule, and another analyzes AI chat logs to recommend documentation improvements and hands its bugs off to the triage skill. This post describes both skill...

I've been adding to my agent skills course, including a reworked section on product skills that now takes a docs-first stance after I started seeing log data. I've also been leaning on AI more heavily to write the course content, which seems fine for instructional material that's constantly in flux. Writing with AI pushes me toward ideas I hadn't considered, so it's become a way...

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, an...