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Most vibe-coded tools are not for you

https://passo.uno/tools-slop-is-a-problem/

Published: May 6, 2026 12:30

AI is inflicting a proliferation of tools, in the utensils’ sense. Folks are conjuring all sorts of programs out of thin air, unrestrained. Someone confessed on Hacker News to having created a hundred custom utilities. Linked to this increase is the…

What makes docs beautiful?

https://passo.uno/what-makes-docs-beautiful/

Published: April 20, 2026 09:00

Docs are often thought of as a purely functional artifact, a packet of content that, when it works, it’s not remembered at all. Those who consume documentation, however, can tell whether a manual or docs site pleases our mind and senses in ways that others…

High fantasy map of tech writing (AI edition)

https://passo.uno/fantasy-map-tech-writing-ai/

Published: April 11, 2026 14:00

Three years ago I published a high fantasy map of technical writing. The world has moved quite a bit since then. AI happened, and with it a darkness has crept in from the north, one that feeds on the daily pessimism of writers that feel cornered. I felt…

In the team of the future, roles are verbs, not nouns

https://passo.uno/docs-team-of-the-future/

Published: March 22, 2026 14:00

If someone asked me to set up a team in charge of software documentation, I would not hire for specific roles or cookie-cut job descriptions. Professions tied to knowledge buckets are bound to shrink or disappear. Instead, I would hire people that could…

Skills are docs, and docs need tech writers

https://passo.uno/skills-are-docs/

Published: March 8, 2026 14:00

Not a month goes by without someone claiming they’ve killed tech writing. A few weeks ago, it was CodeWiki and its docs theatre. Now it’s the turn of Claude Skills and their ecosystem of Markdown instructions served as if they were executable code or…

New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs

https://passo.uno/new-habits-tech-writers-ai-age/

Published: February 28, 2026 15:00

At the end of The writing was always the cheap part, I alluded to the fact that tech writers need to pick up new habits and skills, but didn’t dig into what that entails. These days, any LLM can put together plausible docs with some context and a simple…

The writing was always the cheap part

https://passo.uno/real-cost-of-documentation/

Published: February 24, 2026 21:00

Last December, quite unrealistically, I took a solemn oath: I would not write again about AI for at least another year. I was growing tired with the incessant noise, the lack of stability, and the self-imposed stress of keeping up with all the attention we…

The four modes of AI-augmented technical writing

https://passo.uno/four-modes-ai-augmented-tech-writing/

Published: January 25, 2026 11:00

I like cooking recipes. They’re clean, serene documents where, at some point, one or more utensils enter the stage to perform a task. If you were to write one on how to use AI to augment your work as a technical writer, though, you would have a hard time…

To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI

https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/

Published: January 12, 2026 11:00

Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert…

I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts

https://passo.uno/interview-claude-gemini-2025/

Published: December 21, 2025 15:00

I never posted so much as in 2025. Instead of analyzing my own blog production, I chose to interview Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 about it and get their predictions for next year (with a surprise guest). They never said “You’re absolutely right”, which…