As we welcome the new year, we have asked the experts in our community what they believe the new year will hold for technical communication. Will AI replace tech writers? Or will it help them bring content to the next level? What are the major technical developments that will raise the conversation in 2026?
Here is what they said:
 | "To handle products correctly, customers need targeted, contextual, and accurate information." Harald Stadlbauer, Ninefeb |
 | "To be effective in environments where content is searched by AI and delivered by a search engine, accuracy is only a small part of the equation." Rahel Anne Bailie, Altuent/Content Seriously |
 | "Tech writers will become responsible for designing, orchestrating, and governing the structured content ecosystems that agentive systems rely on." Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler |
 | "Technical communicators must re-integrate their work, content, and tools into the fabric of their organizations." Joe Gollner, Engineering Content |
 | "’AI or human’ labels will become increasingly important." Balázs Kis, Chief Evangelist, memoQ |
 | "We need experts to assemble existing content components into different communications vehicles." Anthony Olivier, MadCap Software |
 | "Documentation will evolve from static articles into dynamic, task-oriented assistance." Selvaraaju Murugesan, Kovai.co |
 | "’Deterministic AI’ can help deliver trustworthy, verified information personalized to a user profile." Ray Gallon, The Transformation Society |