# stc (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover stc. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI Book Club recording of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/the-maniac-labatut-ai-book-club) _2026-08-16 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, held August 16, 2026. This was the club's first work of fiction, and much of the discussion is about what that mode makes possible: getting inside the madness of scientists like John von Neumann in a way a biography can't. We talk about the book's opening scene as a thesis in miniature, logic carried to… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/labatut_maniac_ai_book_club.mp3) ## [Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-deaton-anthropic-tw-automation) _2026-08-02 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Sarah Deaton, a technical writer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code docs, about what documentation work looks like when much of it is automated. We discuss orchestrating docs through skills and agents rather than writing them, mining AI assistant conversations for doc gaps, running forensics on every false claim that reaches… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/deaton-anthropic-100prs-in-a-day.mp3) ## [AI Book Club discussion of The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-infinity-machine-mallaby) _2026-06-28 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. In the discussion, we talk about the complex character of Demis Hassabis (and comparisons to Ender's game), the idea of founders' personal morality acting as a final safeguard, and the relentless acceleration of AI development. We also talk… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/infinitymachine.mp3) ## [Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/judging-beautiful-docs-ai-fatigue-podcast) _2026-05-31 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about a variety of topics related to AI and docs, such as applying Italo Calvino's literary principles of lightness and quickness to evaluate docs, the reality of AI review fatigue versus creator fatigue, whether vibe-coded tools are tools slop, developing internal skills for repeatable doc processes, and the utility of running local AI models. [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/judging-beautiful-docs.mp3) ## [AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence', by Max Tegmark](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-tegmark-life-3-0) _2026-05-17 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Max Tegmark's Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Our discussion explores Tegmark's visions of superintelligence, the unpredictability of AI goals and subgoals, and how the Asilomar principles fare against the relentless market pressures of today's AI arms race. We also contrast the book's theoretical focus on cosmic… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/tegmarklife30bookclubrecording.mp3) ## [AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future', by Dan Wang](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/book-club-breakneck-china-wang) _2026-04-23 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Dan Wang's Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. Our discussion tries to tie some of the book's themes to AI (to align with the book club's theme), but only in places where it makes sense. Some topics we discuss include social engineering, electric vehicles, contrasting energy infrastructures and the ability to power AI compute, mass… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/breakneck-aibookclub.mp3) ## [Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-skills-agentic-workflows-larah-fabrizio) _2026-04-12 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ In this podcast, I chat with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about using skills to extend AI capabilities, the future of agentic engineering, local models like Qwen and Gemma, and whether the tech writer role is shifting into automation architecture. We get into the memory problem in LLMs (and why some of us actually prefer the no memory to extended memory), the progression from prompt… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/larahfabrizioaiapril2026.mp3) ## [The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/cyborg-model-emerging-talk) _2026-04-05 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ I recently gave a presentation to students and faculty in person at Louisiana Tech University on March 30, 2026, focusing on what I call the cyborg model of technical writing. The idea is that the emerging model for tech writing isn't one in which AI replaces tech writers but rather one in which AI augments tech writers. Tech writers interact with AI in a continuous back-and-forth, conversational,… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/latechtalkemergingprofession.mp3) ## [Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/will-tech-writers-survive-ai-academics-nupoor-jeremy) _2026-03-21 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ In this podcast, I chat with two professors - Nupoor Ranade (Carnegie Mellon) and Jeremy Merritt (James Madison University) - about how AI is reshaping the technical writing profession from the academic side. We discuss dropping enrollments, misconceptions about what tech writers do, historical parallels to past disruptions, agentic AI and organizational restructuring, the cyborg model of… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/academic-conversation-nupoor-jeremy.mp3) ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZmJ53OpLwSu0) _2026-03-21 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-book-club-if-anyone-builds-it) _2026-03-17 · I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast_ This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Will Kill Us All by Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky, held March 15, 2026. Our discussion touches on a variety of topics, including whether the book's use of parables strengthens or weakens its argument, the question of whether AI can develop genuine intentions, the competitive dynamics… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/aibookclub-ifanyonebuildsit.mp3)