"Technical documentation as an industry is at a crossroads. If we don’t invest in the next generation of experts—consultants, educators, and documentation strategists—we’re looking at a future where companies try to automate away problems they don’t fully understand, and the only available documentation training is a two-hour webinar hosted by someone who just discovered Markdown last week.

So, if you’re an industry veteran, here’s my plea: write it all down before you retire. Mentor someone. Record a video explaining why metadata matters. Start a blog. Write a book (or three). Please do something to ensure that when you finally sign off for good, the rest aren’t left googling "How to create a sustainable documentation strategy " and getting a bunch of AI-generated nonsense in return.

Otherwise, the future of tech comm might be one long, desperate, less-than-helpful Slack thread."

https://www.thecontentwrangler.com/p/the-great-documentation-brain-drain?r=8sej&amp%3Butm_campaign=post&amp%3Butm_medium=web

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