Write the Docs Berlin 2025 - Lightning Talks Day 2

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Five-minute reports name concrete outcomes: improv practice speeds drafting and enforces listen agree support habits; annotations run on GitBook + Visual Studio Code with hoverable, WCAG‑aware inline glossary snippets; AI agents answer from documentation and a product demo at empathy.co shows doc‑sourced responses and a privacy‑by‑design claim; a 1934 puzzle arrives as 100 scrambled pages, six murders solved originally by two entrants; a home EP records seven songs with 24 drums 32 guitar 8 bass tracks and metronome‑first production that reduces fixup work.

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1. 0:00Welcome to WTD Berlin 2025 Day 2
2. 1:05Comedy and tech writing
3. 6:48Annotations in documentation
4. 12:23Tech writers make AI intelligent
5. 18:06Tech writers as detectives
6. 22:45Audio engineering as docs-as-code
7. 27:30Closing remarks

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