Caring about documentation in the LLM era (w/ Heidi Waterhouse)

<p>In an age of vibe coding and LLMs, do we really need to care about documentation? Do we need to spend time and energy producing it — time when we could just be shipping code? Of course we do; particularly if we want to communicate and share software with other humans. </p> <p>To discuss documentation in 2025, Technology Podcast host Lilly Ryan is joined by Heidi Waterhouse, a very special guest with an esteemed and varied career in technical communcation. </p> <p>In this episode, Lilly and Heidi tackle the challenges of documentation in a world increasingly infused with AI-generated code and text, explore whether prompt engineering is really just technical writing in disguise and examine the difficulties of writing for highly specific audiences. </p> <p>They also cover Heidi's <em>Progressive Delivery,</em> an upcoming book about<em> </em>bridging the gap between software delivery and business value. It's due to be released in the latter part of 2025 and written alongside James Gove...