Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti’s technical writing predictions for 2025¶
Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti is a blogger I’ve enjoyed reading for a while now, and I wanted to highlight his post on 2025 predictions.
The good news is that the job market is going to recover as those owners of code progressively realize the limitations that are inherent to replacing the folks at the periphery with numb language models, something they’re already noticing when it comes to coding tasks. After a stint of degrowth that has felt way too long, companies will seek to grow again in a more sustainable fashion, a trend that will carry the need for better documentation with it.
The catch is that life in the periphery of tech will require AI augmentation and training. If past job offers emphasized API documentation and coding skills, in 2025 tech writers will have to be proficient operators of AI tools, both for writing in docs-as-code environments as for becoming coding associates, able to execute docs infrastructure and toolchain work. When done well, job interviews will ask writers to be able to use AI in writing tests in efficient, innovative ways.
- Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti
I tend to generally agree with most of his predictions, and hope that 2025 will be a return to growth in the tech writing profession. Docs as Code and AI are trends I’m also excited about, but I’m not confident enough yet to publish predictions :)
