Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers

Technical writers' attitudes toward AI can be all over the map, from enthusiastic early adoption to cautiously optimistic to complete rejection. In this post, I try to unpack the reasons that lead some writers to believe what they do about AI. Using research from several articles, I look at AI's jagged frontier,, the impact of domain expertise, and interaction modes as ways of understanding the influences that lead to different attitudes.