Issue 40 — July 5, 2026

Field notes on writing, AI, and the work that doesn't automate.

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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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
2026