Issue 44 — November 13, 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 13, 2026

I Built Work Hub to Keep Tabs on My Work

Work Hub tracks commitments in Claude Code, saves the reasons behind Jira recommendations and deferrals, and remembers working preferences in local Markdown.

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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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