Guest post: Generative AI, technical writing, and evolving thoughts on future horizons, by Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt

In this thoughtful guest post, Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor at James Madison University, wrestles with generative AI and its impact on the technical writing profession. Jeremy examines risks such as decisions being made by leaders who don't understand the variety and complexity of the tech writer role, or the perceived slowness of output from human writers compared to the scale of output from LLMs. Overall, Jeremy argues that Gen AI is another point on a long timeline of tech writers adapting to evolving tools and strategies (possibly now emphasizing context engineering), and he's confident tech writers will also adapt and continue as a profession.