The four modes of AI-augmented technical writing

I like cooking recipes. They’re clean, serene documents where, at some point, one or more utensils enter the stage to perform a task. If you were to write one on how to use AI to augment your work as a technical writer, though, you would have a hard time deciding when and where LLMs come out of the toolbox to aid you. The variety of flavors in which AI presents itself doesn’t help. This is why I’ve come up with a framework that describes applications of the different AI tools at our disposal.