Your AI-generated text sounds like everyone else’s. That is no accident. Removing AI patterns from texts has by now become an editorial discipline in its own right — and one that makes the difference between being read and being skipped over. Removing AI patterns from texts is no wizardry. It requires that you know what […]
Using a chatbot on the command line (the terminal) sounds to many like unnecessary complexity. 90–95 % of AI users use the browser version. Almost everyone I talk to has no idea what the command line is, or how to open it. A browser tab is open in a moment, ChatGPT or Claude.ai load in […]
Setting up a CLI chatbot sounds like an afternoon of configuration work. In practice, the first productive use across all three variants I describe takes less than an hour. The difference lies in what you want to have at the end — and which provider fits your existing subscription. Why use a CLI at all? […]
I have never yet seen a CCMS migration project that stayed within its original schedule. I do not say that to talk the undertaking down. A CCMS migration is one of the most worthwhile investments a technical writing department can make. But the discrepancy between planned and actual effort is strikingly large in this area. […]
The costs of poor documentation appear as a line item in no budget plan. As a result, avoiding these costs shows up in no report either. Both are real and measurable in concrete amounts, and both are spread across many cost centres. This double invisibility is the real lever that goes untouched in most organisations. […]
Introducing AI into the technical writing department is no longer a pioneering act in 2026. The question is no longer whether a language model contributes, but where it does so, who checks the output, and whose data it sees in the process. Anyone who does not clarify these three points builds in a risk that […]
The excellence shortage is a topic that is on the agenda in many technical writing departments right now. Here is what really matters in practice, beyond marketing claims and tool promises. The excellence shortage: what counts in practice By now it is part of the etiquette of every economic-policy debate to lament the skills shortage. […]
Multi-LLM orchestration means using several language models and providers in parallel instead of tying yourself to a single subscription. When that makes sense and what an architecture can look like that absorbs rate limits and outages. TL;DR In professional use, a single LLM subscription becomes a bottleneck. A more expensive subscription buys you a few […]
The business case for technical documentation is a topic that is on the agenda in many technical writing departments right now. Here is what really matters in practice, beyond marketing claims and tool promises. TL;DR Justifying CCMS investments through job cuts never works out in practice, and it breaks the project before it has begun. […]
Data quality as a compliance factor is a topic that is on the agenda in many technical writing departments right now. Here is what really matters in practice, beyond marketing claims and tool promises. TL;DR A wrong weight in a product database can trigger a fine in the millions. Data quality is not an IT […]