[heisenbit]

Finally no more professionals trying to make technology understandable by outsiders. Developers in control, let's hide knowledge behind cryptic terminology, issue databases and impossible to navigate web sites - long beyond the abilities of Google now requiring AI to learn anything.

I feel sad that we are loosing the long form communication - deep manuals and books. When I started we had dedicated technical writers but then lost them along the way supposedly to save money. They then took other roles not necessarily shining in them while developers did a worse job and were loaded with yet another task. Technology allows for vertical integration of workflows and there is value in removing human to human transitions. But there was also value created in these interactions. Full stack, dev ops or getting rid of dedicated testers are other examples where we are stretching human ability and not always getting a better outcome.

[bloqs]

This increasing cognitive demand paired with an increase in lacking empathy is a worrying combination

[toomuchtodo]

The compression to run orgs on minimum viable humans will continue until system failure. Boeing, Intel, etc. As long as nothing breaks, there is no incentive not to.

[ramon156]

Demand for developer-focused material*

[johnnyanmac]

Something went very wrong when whoever, in a Technical Communication Society, decided that the tech writers were a good place to skimp on costs.