Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

In this episode, Fabrizio (from passo.uno) and I discuss the concept of documentation theater with auto-generated wikis, why visual IDEs like Antigravity beat CLIs for writing, and the liberation vs. acceleration paradox where AI speeds up work but creates review bottlenecks. We also explore the dilemmas of labeling AI usage, why AI needs a good base of existing docs to function well, and how technical writers can stop doing plumbing work and start focusing on more high-value strategic initiatives instead (efforts that might push the limits of what AI can even do). This post also contains a lot of short...

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Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti is an episode from I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast by Tom Johnson.

This episode is 59:47 long.

This episode was published on Nov 30, 2025.

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