Claude wants to deliver an answer, and will hand you a wrong one if it satisfies the question better than the truth does. I asked it to help my Pi-hole docs surface better for AI, watched it diagnose the wrong cause with total confidence, and settled it myself with nearly five months of citation data.
Robert Moses called the Cross-Bronx Expressway progress. Tesla called its charging network a standard. Some standards get built for everyone. Others just get called that, until someone makes them prove it.
A technical writer is a developer, too. An engineer of structured information: curation, synthesis, information architecture, judgment. We write, but that's often the least of it. I built a Claude Code plugin to help.
The AI hype bubble is going to pop. There, I said it. There's more to it, though: unverifiable promises, AI-washing, moving goalposts, and why I see the hype as a riptide.
AI tooling changes by the week. The fundamentals don't. On a broken MCP, jiu-jitsu meta, and why the basics outlast every shiny new thing.