TechComm SIG - Don’t Use a Jet to Cross the Street: When to Swap AI for Terminal Scripts | Virtual

As technical communication shifts to large-scale information architecture and optimizing content for GEO, knowing which tool to use is the ultimate superpower. Generative AI is powerful, but using an LLM for basic structural tasks is like flying a jet across the street, leading to unnecessarily high resource consumption, slower execution, and hallucinations.

Technical Writer Jasmine Boyens will show how you can leverage terminal and command-line scripts for context-independent tasks to lower costs and supercharge your documentation strategy.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to evaluate when a task requires context-sensitive AI versus a fast, deterministic script.
• How to use command-line tools to save time during content migrations and other tasks.
• Ready-to-use scripts that can update hundreds of files in seconds.
• How to further reduce resource consumption by using and sharing customizable scripts.

ATD Tech Comm SIG is a space for technical communicators in Florida and beyond to connect, share knowledge, and support one another! Bring a friend, a coworker, colleagues, etc., and help us grow our community!

Agenda: 

• 6:30 - 7:00 Optional networking
• 7:00 - 8:00 Program