AI
Essays on AI tools, capabilities, and the work they're changing.
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.
I Built a Personal Intelligence System. The Trick Was Making the Code Dumb.
Thirty sources. Three hundred articles a week. Python fetches them and stays stupid on purpose. Claude reads everything and tells me the three things to do. A signal bank remembers the rest until it matters.
Seventy-Two Hours: Inside NVIDIA OpenShell, the Sandbox for AI Agents
A frontier model got pulled three days after launch. The agent on your own machine has no off switch like that, so you cage it instead. A plain look at what NVIDIA's open-source OpenShell actually does.
The industrialization of technical writing
How enterprise economics are compressing the craft.
There Is More to AI
Five research papers, a holiday week, and what I kept thinking about after I published the last one
Taking Yourself Out of the Equation
Before someone else does it for you, and calls it progress
The technical writer's survival kit for 2026 (and beyond)
Your job title might say 'writer' but your skills better say 'architect, engineer, and occasional therapist.'
The year that didn't ask for permission
2025 taught us new tools. It also taught us what can't be automated away.
Google Antigravity IDE just dropped. I tested it immediately and here's what you need to know
Google released Antigravity IDE this morning alongside Gemini 3. I spent my entire day testing it. The results surprised me.
I Built a Gamified 365-Day AI Learning App in One Evening—Want to Join Me on This Journey?
The conversation with Raj that changed everything, the app I built for myself (not to sell), and an invitation to spend the next 365 days becoming the person AI can't replace
I Tested Google I/O 2025 Tools Over the Weekend—Here's What Actually Changes for Technical Writers
A hands-on weekend testing Google's new AI arsenal: Gemini Search, Jules, Stitch, and more—from a solo technical writer's perspective
From prototype to co-pilot - Launching the mini AI writing assistant for technical style enforcement
A fine-tuned model trained on thousands of real documentation edits—rewriting with near-human precision
Building an AI Technical Writing Assistant - Transforming Documentation with Machine Learning
How I trained an AI to enforce style guides and improve technical documentation quality