Our guests talk about their insights and experience as documentarians. We bring advice from behind open and closed developer portals, ideas on what new learnings you can aim for, and recent experiments from the field of API documentation.
The Ambient AI Future - conversation with Tashfeen Mahmud
Tashfeen Mahmud, senior technical writer at Samsung Research in Canada explains why curiosity is your best defense against technical aversion, and how to prepare for a future where technical writers are primarily AI trainers. 'Adapting to AI isn't like learning to cook from scratch. It’s like walking into a kitchen that already knows how to cook: it just needs a human to guide it through the process. Your new role is not to execute every step, but to orchestrate an AI that already possesses the technical capability.' '[...]that takes you to decide which AI solution should you even use? If you're a large company, it's likely you will want to build your own solution or you'll get into a very expensive, almost exclusive contract with some AI provider, let's say on ChatGPT Enterprise or something like that. But if you are a small team, then that means you will probably gravitate towards a hosted solution, like a lower tier chatGPT account or something like that, or Claude or something else. Or if you're kind of picky about security and control, you will probably try hosting your own smaller open source model and training that, basically getting it to be workable for your purposes.'
25 Nov 2025
Streamline release notes: balance AI and human oversight
Senior technical writers Gareth Brinn and Lydia Pedersen talk about using GPTs and n8n to automate release notes: scripting, prompt engineering, and synthesizing data from Jira and GitHub. Next plans include using AI for first drafts of core docs while maintaining oversight. Their advice: start simple, iterate, and grow to achieve process improvements and strategic benefits.
API thought leader Kevin Swiber and Pronovix CEO Kristof Van Tomme join the podcast to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the emerging governance challenges it presents to API strategy. We discuss the need to balance driving business value and opportunity against mitigating the security risks associated with rapid MCP adoption, noting the pressure this technology puts on enterprises to safely enable its use. MCP and Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing paradigms from simple access control (previously focused on preventing access to the wrong information) to managing and bridging context between different systems, such as a workflow for example between a corporate context and a remote context.
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