Issue 43 — November 12, 2026

A working journal from inside a technical writing team adopting AI faster than the org chart can keep up. Longform essays, tooling teardowns, and uncomfortable observations.

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★ Pinned Technical Writing 8 min read · November 12, 2026

Where I’d Look for Technical Writing Jobs

Five job ads in India and North America, real job-search accounts, and a way to find roles you might miss by searching only for technical writer.

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Every Number Has a Parent

Part 1 of Weights to Words, a series on how language models are built and run. A working miniature transformer-style model with 44 knobs that you can train in your browser, where every number on the page tells you who made it.

AI 20 min read
Oct 17
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Loop Engineering Is a Writing Job

Your agent ends every session with the same confident word. Here is the loop that checks that word from outside: a written definition of done, a boring checker, a heartbeat, and a grade. Five small files, one afternoon, real output included.

AI 19 min read
Jul 19
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The Trust layer nobody built

You wrapped your documentation pipeline in Claude skills and wrote rules in markdown to keep them honest. Those rules are a sticky note, not a guardrail. Here is how a technical writer builds trust they can actually rely on into their own AI workflow: a check the agent can't override, provenance on every draft, and the seven things you do this week.

AI 15 min read
Jun 27
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There Is More to AI

Five research papers, a holiday week, and what I kept thinking about after I published the last one

AI 14 min read
Mar 5
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