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Orbital Salvage is gathering thoughts and opinions in an ongoing project to predict what comes next, one word at a time.

Technical writers are becoming context curators

A context curator, in this sense, is a technical writer who is able to orchestrate and execute a content strategy around both human and AI needs, or even focused on AI alone

AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators

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Tyler King

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AI, Technical Writing
Documentation Futurology Work, usefulness Writing
←The thing I’m relatively good at is knowing what’s worth building, what users like, how to communicate both technically and humanely.
We got to a stage where you need to think about protecting your designs and inventions in order to share them with the community.→

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Orbital Salvage is gathering thoughts and opinions in an ongoing project to predict what comes next, one word at a time.