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Practical AI Strategies For Documentation Teams
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| With Doug Purcell (Technical Writer, Supermicro), Andrew Fetter (Principal Technical Writer, Roblox), Raytao Xia (Platform, Etched). |
| Venue, 1 Post St, San Francisco |
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Feb 10 (Tue) , 2026 @ 06:30 PM
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FREE |
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Event Agenda
6:30-7:00 PM: Arrivals & structured networking
Challenge: Make at least one new LinkedIn connection during this time.
7:00-7:15 PM: Community announcements
Are you hiring, looking for work, or eager to share a cool project you've been working on? Deliver a 30-second elevator pitch to the Write the Docs Bay Area community.
7:15-8:30 PM: Talks
8:30-9:00 PM: Continued networking
9:00 PM: Hard stop
Optional: Continue networking at a nearby bar.
Featured talks:
Speaker: Doug Purcell
Role: Technical Writer at Supermicro
Title: AI Assistance for Enforcing Style Guidelines in Technical Documentation
Description: Style guidelines, such as those from Google & Microsoft, serve as a blueprint for creating content at scale with consistency. Consistent terminology, wording, & style choices make content easier for end users to understand & reduce cognitive load. However, enforcing consistency becomes increasingly difficult as documentation teams & content sets grow. Tools like Vale can help by linting documentation, but they are limited to deterministic checks.
In this talk, I will walk you through a project I built from scratch & show how I used artificial intelligence to turbocharge my Vale implementation. This approach enables stronger style enforcement & higher-quality content rewrites.
Speaker: Andrew Fetter
Role: Principal Technical Writer at Roblox
Talk title: AI & Compound Interest
Description: This talk covers some AI-powered productivity boosts & cautions against round pegs in square holes. Technical writers-everyone in tech, really-are continually grasping at single-digit gains, & AI offers a slew of new ways to achieve them. Andrew also covers the most important productivity strategy of all, which might or might not have anything to do with AI.
Speaker: Raytao Xia
Role: Platform at Etched
Title: AI Agents as Hands on the Keyboard
Description: Coding agents such as Claude Code & OpenAI Codex are often treated as code generators. In practice, they go further; they can write code, execute commands, & run programs, scripts, & applications on your behalf. Leveraged effectively, your short inputs expand into entire workflows.
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