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  • AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson

    AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson
    Oct 21 2026
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson, held October 18, 2026. Ratings ranged from two stars to five, but most of the group agreed the book made AI warfare feel immediate rather than futuristic. We talk about how much of the kill chain is information work long before anyone fires a weapon, moral injury among remote operators, the habit of clicking allow on every permission prompt, who's to blame when an AI-identified target turns out to be a school, AI-driven...
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    58 min
  • Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM

    Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM
    Oct 19 2026
    In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with CT Smith about her new book, WTFM: A Practical Guide for Standing Up Docs at a Startup. We discuss why docs need a human owner even when anyone can generate content with AI, how CT kept her voice by writing the book herself in Neovim, the layered pipeline of Vale hooks, skills, model reviews, and sandbox fixtures that lets Claude Code handle about 40% of her tickets, the risk of gradual disempowerment, and why systems thinking matters most in a first docs hire.
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    52 min
  • AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern

    AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern
    Sep 20 2026
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, and much of the discussion is about why: so many of the experiences come across as superficial stunts with AI, rather than true engagement. In our discussion, some found the medical chapter to be the book's strongest section. Other topics: the question of whether you should fix a system before amplifying it, chatbots that give you the candid career advice...
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    34 min
  • Writing for an audience of agents — podcast with Ethan Palm from Mintlify

    Writing for an audience of agents — podcast with Ethan Palm from Mintlify
    Sep 2 2026
    In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Ethan Palm, a technical writer and knowledge engineer at Mintlify, about what happens when nearly half your documentation traffic comes from AI agents. We discuss Mintlify's platform data on agent versus human traffic, hidden directories for agent-only content, the uncertain future of llms.txt, automated doc maintenance workflows where writing accounts for at most ten percent of the job, and the social atrophy that comes from reaching for a terminal prompt instead of a coworker.
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    53 min
  • AI Book Club recording of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut

    AI Book Club recording of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut
    Aug 16 2026
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, held August 16, 2026. This was the club's first work of fiction, and much of the discussion is about what that mode makes possible: getting inside the madness of scientists like John von Neumann in a way a biography can't. We talk about the book's opening scene as a thesis in miniature, logic carried to irrational ends, the 'death of play' in the AlphaGo match against Lee Sedol, Move 78 as a case for human unpredictability, the garage door scene as a metaphor for...
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    59 min
  • Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic

    Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic
    Aug 2 2026
    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 it is automated. We discuss orchestrating docs through skills and agents rather than writing them, mining AI assistant conversations for doc gaps, running forensics on every false claim that reaches the docs, new metrics like time-to-correction and steers per PR, the fences that keep AI-generated docs honest, and how she closed more than a hundred pull requests in a single day.
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    1 h et 7 min
  • AI Book Club discussion of The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby

    AI Book Club discussion of The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
    Jun 28 2026
    This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. In the discussion, we talk about the complex character of Demis Hassabis (and comparisons to Ender's game), the idea of founders' personal morality acting as a final safeguard, and the relentless acceleration of AI development. We also talk about the historical rivalries between deep learning and reinforcement learning, the growing urgency around AI-driven job displacement, and what it means to train AI to automate our own work.
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    58 min
  • Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio

    Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio
    May 31 2026
    In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about a variety of topics related to AI and docs, such as applying Italo Calvino's literary principles of lightness and quickness to evaluate docs, the reality of AI review fatigue versus creator fatigue, whether vibe-coded tools are tools slop, developing internal skills for repeatable doc processes, and the utility of running local AI models.
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    58 min