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The AI-Native Technical Writer
Campbell Public library, 77 Harrison St, Campbell, CA, USAI is changing more than how technical writers draft content. It’s reshaping how we research, create, structure, review, maintain, and measure documentation, while changing the role of the technical writer itself.
This meetup will explore practical ways technical writers are incorporating AI into their workflows, from AI-powered documentation tools and skills to new approaches for organizing and maintaining content.
### Confirmed Speaker
Ane Tröger, PhD
Lead Technical Writer at Bayer
Talk: Building a Diátaxis Classification Skill for Docs-as-Code
Description: In internal docs-as-code repositories documentation tends to grow organically, rather than by design. Pages get added where it's convenient rather than where they belong, and the result is a flat, untyped structure that nobody fully understands. Platform migrations make it worse: whatever hierarchy existed before partially collapses, and content arrives as a batch. The cost lands on everyone — readers lose time in the wrong mode, writers lose confidence about where their contribution goes, and AI tools lose accuracy because mixed signals produce mixed outputs.One possible solution is to restructure the repo so that is easier to find information, easier to maintain, and potentially easier for AI to consume.
This talk walks through building an AI skill that classifies documentation pages against the Diátaxis framework — tutorial, how-to, explanation, and reference — plus a fifth type, wayfinding, added to handle the navigation hubs every real repository contains. We'll look at how the skill is structured across three files itself, the four-step workflow it follows (read, classify, split, navigate), and why it produces a confidence level from signal distribution instead of a pass/fail verdict — with low confidence acting as the mixed-content flag.Suitable for technical writers at any level; sections on skill design and decision-making go deepest for experienced practitioners. The foundations of the Diátaxis framework and examples will be covered briefly, and if you want to get the most of this talk, I suggest taking a look at the Diátaxis framework ahead of time: https://diataxis.fr/start-here/
## Call for Speakers
We’re looking for two more speakers to deliver 15–20 minute talks related to The AI-Native Technical Writer.
We’re especially interested in practical talks based on professional experience, including AI-assisted research and drafting, documentation review, content maintenance, information architecture, docs-as-code, agent-ready documentation, analytics, automation, and the evolving role of technical writers.
Interested in speaking? Submit your talk through our Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIXTa3RZZauO02Vp8E00ej2GlvWyfkHxMj0P3faRRkCMGxuw/viewform20 attendees
Practical AI for Documentation
Mindspace, 575 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States, San Francisco, CA, USAI and docs — everyone's talking about it, but what does it actually look like in practice? Join Write the Docs Bay Area and GitBook for an evening focused on real, applied workflows: using AI to draft, structure, and maintain documentation, with GitBook demoed live as the publishing platform.
You'll hear how a real docs team runs AI in production, then roll up your sleeves in a hands-on workshop.What to expect
🍕 6:30 PM — Doors open: pizza, drinks, and informal networking
👋 7:00 PM — Welcome & intro (plus the Tech Writer Scouting Report)
🎤 7:10 PM — Talk: Ian Alton, Head of Technical Writing at Airbyte — AutoDoc: How Airbyte self-heals and auto-merges docs for 600+ open source connectors
💻 7:45 PM — Hands-on workshop: Working on documentation with AI, led by Addison Schultz & Sarah Duggan (GitBook)
🗣️ 8:35 PM — Wrap-up, Q&A, and open networking
Who should comeTechnical writers, docs engineers, developer advocates, and anyone curious about how AI is changing documentation work. Bring a laptop for the workshop portion. Food and drinks provided. Space is limited — RSVP to save your spot!
Shout out to our sponsors
Thank you, GitBook, for your continued support of the technical writing community! GitBook is generously sponsoring the food, beverages, and beautiful event venue.
Learn more about GitBook and its documentation solutions by visiting: https://www.gitbook.com21 attendees
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