SFDUG - San Francisco Drupal Users group

Neither of us is a writer. We have been building websites with Drupal for fifteen years. Carlos is a software engineer, Anilu is a product designer, and until this blog neither of us had ever written for an audience. Add a second language, a technical subject, and readers who are not technical, and that is three barriers stacked on top of each other.

AI is how we get past them. Not by writing for us... it does not write for us. We write. The tools help us get there faster, and with work we are willing to put our names on.

In this session we open the whole process on one real post. How we capture fleeting notes as ideas arrive. The creative brief, where we put the message down in our own words before any draft exists. The tone guide that holds the writing to our voice instead of the model's. We will read a paragraph the model handed us that we threw away, and the one we wrote instead, so you can judge the difference for yourself.

We also do not agree about AI writing. Where the line sits is something we argue about, and we still have to publish together every time. We will have that argument in front of you, because the moments we tell the AI no matter more than the ones where we say yes.

Both of those are plain documents. We built tooling around them so that we actually do it every time, but you do not need any of it to start.