Tech Writing vs GPT
I recently stumbled on a Twitter discussion debating whether the role of developer relations (DevRel) / developer advocates would become obsolete due to generative AI, such as GPT.
DevRels are the people who create and maintain a community around a product. Their responsibilities include writing documentation and blog posts, producing educational content like videos, newsletters, and podcasts, and organizing or participating in tech events.
Although it’s unlikely that the face-to-face aspect of DevRel can be replaced anytime soon, a big part of many DevRel positions is generating digital content: specifically technical writing, such as external-facing documentation and blogs. For example, while working in both DevRel and technical writing, I frequently had to explain security concepts in-depth to software engineers. So I decided to prompt ChatGPT to create a blog post about XSS and see how it does.
Create a blog post that explains XSS vulnerabilities.
The audience of the blog post should be software engineers.
The post should include different types of XSS,
and how to write XSS safe code,
with both examples of vulnerable code and how to fix them.