From Tech Writers to Architects of Purpose

Image generated by Gamma.The dust has settled from ConVEx 2025, an industry conference focused on information and content development, and I find myself processing insights about AI's impact on the world technical communication once again. This year, I saw a shift in how we understand our role in relation to AI systems that shows how our ancient ways of thinking can help us address modern challenges.Specifically, our understanding of purpose.Last year at ConVEx 2024, I reported three key observations about AI in technical writing:Augmentation, not replacement was the prevailing attitude.