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Hard to overstate how important tech writers are for the reproduction of technological knowledge, and how ill-suited AI is for this job. I can absolutely see the VPs of companies shuttering their tech writing department and just shifting that responsibility over to engineers and LLMs... which will just make all sophisticated technological processes even more difficult to teach and reproduce.
I did this for almost a decade, quit during the height of COVID because I was sick of working at computer....I now look like a genius who anticipated the collapse but actually it was just making me depressed. but yeah you need humans to do that work correctly and I can definitely see middle manager types ignoring that to please bean counters, I'm sure those jobs are now getting shredded.
on a related note I recently learned the tech writing program I graduated from a decade ago no longer exists as of this semester :/