
Just heard about the layoffs of Technical Writers at Snowflake and Amazon, and I was devastated. I recorded my take on this, and here's what the technical writers (including me) can do.
I've spent some time now working as a technical writer and documentation engineer at DevTool companies and agencies. When I heard about the layoffs of technical writers across Snowflake and Amazon, I felt really sad. Also, it had nothing to do with the revenue and all. These teams were doing great as it is.
In fact, while I was recording my observations in an article, I heard about the Cloudflare layoffs too. Damn, that was even shattering.
All this brought insecurity in me about us technical writers in the age of AI, and if such things keep on happening, what should we be doing?
Check out my take on this here and how to be ready for such a situation, and I would want to know your thoughts, too.