📖Red Hat Teaches Tech Writing with LLMs and D&D
Tech writers role-play D&D to learn better documentation
TL;DR
Red Hat's PV177 course teaches technical writing with LLMs and Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing. Students learned to interact with humans and use AI tools effectively.
Red Hat's PV177 course at Masaryk University uses LLMs and role-playing to teach technical writing. Students learned to interact with humans and use AI tools effectively. The course aimed at students with some technical knowledge faced challenges like varying command-line experience and remote interaction issues. Despite prohibitions, students used LLMs to complete tasks, and feedback was given through internet memes. The final exercise was a D&D-style quest titled 'I want to be a tech writer, but how to get there?'. Course materials are open source, and students gained a permanent FOSS record.
Key Points
Red Hat's PV177 course teaches technical writing at Masaryk University's Faculty of Informatics.
The course uses LLMs and role-playing to help students interact with humans and tools effectively.
Course materials are open source and available on GitHub.
Students gained a permanent FOSS record from the course.
A 'Birds of a Feather' session discussed Technical Writing in the Age of AI.
Why It Matters
Tech writers at Red Hat are teaching a course on technical writing that uses LLMs and role-playing. This approach helps students learn to interact with humans and tools effectively. The course materials are open source and available on GitHub, and students gain a permanent FOSS record.
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