Technical Writing in the AI Age

ai writing Technical Writing in the AI Age Geoff Graham on May 26, 2026 This isn’t coming out of nowhere: My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets — Andy Bell (@bell.bz) 2026-05-19T18:23:42.034Z More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year…www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell… — Kevin Powell (@kevinpowell.co) 2026-05-21T13:22:13.240Z It's not fun to make tech content as much anymore, too. I'm doing some because I actually like it, but it feels like I'm shouting into a slop-driven void nearly everywhere. It's really tiring.I get so much joy reading individual blogs and newsletters still (like yours!), at least. — Cassidy (@cassidoo.co) 2026-05-19T22:32:55.483Z I’m just 7 videos away from finishing a 45-video course about building for the web, and the fact that people are rarely choosing to learn from human-crafted content anymore therefore rendering hundreds of hours of my human effort completely pointless is burning me out catastrophically. I am a husk. — ⭑ salma (@whitep4nth3r.com) 2026-05-20T07:05:14.119Z These are all folks I deeply admire and I’d be lying if I said I disagreed with any of that. The fact is, demand for front-end technical writing has significantly dropped, and has been for some time . Just look at our stats for yourself: I’m not embarrassed to share this because it’s happening across the board. I mean, it’s the same thing over at Stack Overflow as we’ve already discussed in depth . I work with other content creators and publications and it’s also the same story. Naturally, I tend to take personal responsibility for this sort of thing, but it’s hard not to se