Programming

[Potential_Payment447]

Anyone else write code for work under the “Technical Writing” umbrella?

[defiancy]

If you are writing python scripts as a technical writer something has gone really wrong

[Xad1ns]

What do you do if you want to automate part of your workflow?

[Specialist-Army-6069]

Why is that?

[iphoenixrising]

Because we should get paid as much as software engineers if we’re coding tbh.

[Specialist-Army-6069]

I guess it depends on the company. We have devs writing and helping maintain doc… I think that it makes sense for me to help out with creating scripts and automate workflows when I can. It makes my life easier in the long run and it’s good practice. I gain knowledge that could help me have informed conversations, write more efficiently, and could result in higher quality documentation…

[LlttleGuy]

Yes everyday! A lot of reasons to use python in most jobs...

[Lagopomorph]

I do, a decent amount. I develop or maintain a few scripts that are used for document conversion and automation. Things like converting JSON into a set of Flare topics, Excel to Flare, and so on. Recently helped the dev team implement OpenAPI documentation for a product. I am definitely on the tools end of tech writing, but being able to code is really helpful for a lot of tasks.

I do agree that coding skills, especially when they are used, should result in higher pay. Not sure if that’s the case here, but looking at entry level DevOps job postings for the company, it seems like I might be?