Excited and exhausted: My honest take about life as a techwriter in the AI age

TL;DR: As professional writers, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring AI; it’s learn the skills or get left behind. Still, I’m excited because AI has genuinely made me more productive and work (personal and work-work) has become a lot more fun. However, I’m also exhausted because there’s so much to learn. However, rather than whine about it, I have decided to “attack” the challenge strategically. Table of contents How I first reacted to LLMsA merciless time: Anti-AI writers will be left behindLearning fast, learning messilyMy realization: Learning needs to be more focused and deliberate A few weeks ago, I told my online tech writer friend Fabrizio of Passo.uno that I wrote a whiny journal entry about how overwhelmed I was about the amount of things I have to learn about AI. At the end of the conversation, I asked him to write a blog post about how we technically inclined writers can cope with the speed of change in AI tech and learn fast. He kindly obliged me in a day, writing this…