{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Knowledgebase Ninjas","title":"Writing Clearly in the Age of AI: Lessons from Stripe’s Ryan Young","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":979,"description":"In this episode of the Knowledge Base Ninjas podcast, host Gowri Ramkumar speaks with Ryan Young, Staff Technical Writer at Stripe, about the fundamentals of technical writing and how they continue to matter in an evolving technology landscape. \nRyan shares his journey into technical writing and explains why clarity, conciseness, and understanding the reader remain essential, regardless of the tools writers use. He also discusses writing for different stages of the user journey, using progressive disclosure, and refining documentation based on real user feedback. \nThe conversation also touches on AI and LLMs. Ryan believes these tools have powerful use cases, but writers should not outsource their thinking to them. For him, writing is part of the thinking process itself. Human judgment therefore remains essential to producing clear and useful documentation. \nThank you for tuning in!  \n \nIn the meantime, if you're ready to explore Document360, a knowledge base platform that can help your customers and teams get instant answers, we’d love to invite you to try it first-hand. \n \nSimply use this link - https://bit.ly/4ktBnZZ to start your free trial.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I3uR1xA3Et2H8jv2qpXR7ZbQ4mi8AR5s21zNHZxQ-IU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xYzlm/ODljN2FkYWE3NDA3/OWY3MzYzMjk2ZWM1/YzdjZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}