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State of Docs Podcast

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The State of Docs podcast brings you the conversations behind the research. Each year, the State of Docs report captures how the industry thinks about documentation — and this is where you hear it straight from the people who do the work. Interviews with technical writers, developer advocates, and developers who own docs, on the tools, workflows, and ideas shaping how we build and maintain documentation. Produced by GitBook.

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Carbon and Iron: the human role in AI-era documentation | a conversation with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti | State of Docs Podcast 17.06.2026 24:21

Technical writing isn't disappearing in the age of AI — it's being redefined. In this episode of the State of Docs podcast, host Tal Gluck talks with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, Principal Technical Writer at Elastic and author of the documentation blog Passo.uno, about the human's role in AI-era documentation: where writers still matter, where the work is being automated, and how technic...

Why AI makes good docs more important, not less | State of Docs Podcast 20.05.2026 18:20

Good documentation doesn't just support your product — it is your product. In this episode of the State of Docs podcast, we talk with Shahed Nasser, Head of DX at Medusa, about how a developer-first open source platform thinks about documentation: building a custom docs platform from scratch, measuring what actually matters (hint: it's not page views), and why the best feedback about your docs oft...

From Caboose to Product Manager: How Technical Writing is Reinventing Itself | State of Docs Podcast 28.04.2026 24:01

Technical writing is changing fast — and not in the ways most people expect. In this episode of the State of Docs podcast, we talk with Sarah Dugan, GitBook's first dedicated technical writing and documentation lead, about the evolving role of technical writers in AI-powered products, how developer documentation is becoming a core driver of product success, and what it takes to build a documentati...