[entontoent]

Was anyone else confused by this title?

I thought it was saying "a letter to those who fired tech writers because they were caught using AI," not "a letter to those who fired tech writers to replace them with AI."

The whole article felt imprecise with language. To be honest, it made me feel LESS confident in human writers, not more.

I was having flashbacks to all of the confusing docs I've encountered over the years, tightly controlled by teams of bad writers promoted from random positions within the company, or coming from outside but having a poor understanding of our tech or how to write well.

I'm writing this as someone who majored in English Lit and CS, taught writing to PhD candidates for several years, and maintains most of my own company's documentation.

[ThrowawayR2]

Given the steady parade of headlines on HN about workers supposedly being replaced by AI, it seems fairly self-evident that the first interpretation is the less likely of the two.