Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio

I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast by Tom Johnson

May 31, 202600:57:47Technology

In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about a variety of topics related to AI and docs, such as applying Italo Calvino's literary principles of lightness and quickness to evaluate docs, the reality of AI...

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