Post by @gabrielmarkley@techhub.social

2026-05-06 20:00 UTC

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org true but can you relate the concept of a Mentee extrapolating what they learned beyond the defined skill vs the decreasing returns on a skill file and the need to optimize for the agent? One seems to have an exponential growth perspective where the other seems to only have a fixed possible optimization. Very interested in your thoughts...

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@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org 2026-05-06 22:24

@gabrielmarkley@techhub.social I'm not the author of this article. In my case, I just use a Notion file. But the skills files are just used for documenting stuff that can be automated by delegating it to AI agents. In any case, AI agents and tools like Claude Code are just on another level of the possiblities opened to a technical writer. You can become like a "unicorn" - the perfect mix of a software developer and a technical writer. Of course, you still need humans in the loop to assess the accuracy of the documentation and this is often something that only the author of the code behind the API can completely grasp or at least help you grasp. But the affordances allowed by LLMs and AI agents in particular are way beyond the traditional roles. The key here is to have more human communication and feedback.

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