Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
@theletterf.bsky.social
Content engineer. Tech writer. Collector of old manuals. Retrocomputing enthusiast. Opinions my own, etc. Don't panic! My blog is https://passo.uno
Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.
LLM phrases that me cold sweat. I'll start: "Sorry, that's because I took a shorcut..." "Let's just set up a dummy response for now..."
Curious about how tech writers work at Anthropic? Tom Johnson and I asked Sarah Deaton, who works for the makers of Claude. My favorite takeway: Nobody types the docs. Everything goes through Claude, in a rough 50/50 split between Claude in Slack and the CLI. idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast...
Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic
In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Sarah Deaton, a technical writer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code docs, about what documentation work looks like when much of...
idratherbewriting.com
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Cult-like frameworks fit very well in cult-like companies.
I'd work with it to build a local AI with fully traceable pedigree, trained on public domain materials. I'd distribute it for free, just like the Linux kernel. That would prevent the rise of AI companies and the AI bubble. In other words, I would use AI to democratize the gift I've been granted.
It's the perfect time to launch a TV series based on Neuromancer: — Failing nation states: check. — Unconventional warfare: check. — Deranged billionaires in place: check. — AI that escapes containment: check. — Expensive biotech therapies: check. Though the book looks almost rosier than reality.
Punctuation must be used sparingly and with finesse. A well placed em dash is mightier than a sword. Use a lot and you have a garden fence.
The new “⚠️Seems like AI slop” button on LinkedIn is sending me into orbit lmao
I didn't think it'd work, but asking Claude to always reply using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) does wonders!
This is a tool I've developed at work to keep all our local agentic stuff in sync across harnesses, and to make it easy for folks to update things like our Vale rules and Claude skills with a single command. You'd find the concept inspiring. github.com/elastic/docs...
A friend of mine recently lost her job in a layoff. She looked at her résumé with a pang of despair and asked me for advice on what she should learn next. I put together some notes. passo.uno/job-hunt-tec...
Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age
A friend of mine recently lost her job in a layoff. She looked at her résumé with a pang of despair and asked me for advice on what she should learn next. She hasn’t thrown in the towel on technical w...
passo.uno
A friend of mine recently lost her job in a layoff. She looked at her résumé with a pang of despair and asked me for advice on what she should learn next. I put together some notes. passo.uno/job-hunt-tec...
Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age
A friend of mine recently lost her job in a layoff. She looked at her résumé with a pang of despair and asked me for advice on what she should learn next. She hasn’t thrown in the towel on technical w...
passo.uno
Frontier models over-optimizing for coding make me feel good. Their writing is increasingly bad. Perhaps they're going full engineer.
I'm thinking of writing a novel with the help of AI, but without any AI writing. The role of AI would be to tease me into writing, a coach of sorts. An alarm clock on steroids.
This ancient song was found in a burial site. It conveys the archetypal optimism of the Empire at the apex of its power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTx...
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Sometimes you need *less* documentation. Sometimes you need to trim. Sometimes it's OK to hit the Delete key.
He who controls the API controls the universe. The tokens must flow.
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Gemini translated one of my posts to Emilian language (Reggiano dialect) and I'm in awe. Could have read it to my grandma.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Sylvain Neuvel@neuvel.net · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
I love quirky, nerdy, and slightly clumsy people. They're my people.
Turning mistakes into marketing is not dishonest, but it's not good either. "Hey, we've accidentally nuked a town — pretty impressive fallout, eh? Hah!"
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2w agoTucked away in this article is an appeal to the AI skeptics to PLEASE stop writing off stories like this OpenAI accidental exploit of Hugging Face as a dishonest marketing trick Frontier models can find and exploit vulnerabilities now, it helps nobody to pretend that they can't!
