Writing
- Editing 80,000 words: volume in parallel, correctness by machine, judgment by meHow I ran a full reader-first edit of a 17-chapter technical book with AI agents, without losing a code sample or a diagram. One brief, nine batches, a validator that compares every file against the original, and a human read at the end.
- Write for the reader, not the auditorTechnical writing drifts into a defensive voice: passive, long, careful, addressed to nobody. I rewrote my 80,000-word book against nine rules and measured the result. Sentences got shorter, boxes got smaller, and the reader finally got addressed.