Mike Jang

Talk:
 

Mike leads a raucous and rollicking view of AI—not only in software but throughout society. You’ll hear about the funniest (and sometimes weirdest) bits that he has seen in his first few months as a Tech Writer for an open-source vector search database company, Qdrant.

Mike started --prepping-- for AI by rewatching "2001: A Space Odyssey." He'll take the point of view of HAL 9000, as modified with Commander Data's emotion chip. He'll turn some of the new AI terms on their head. For example, he'll be:

• Ragging on RAG
• Cosigning similarities
• Navigating with HNSW to the next small world
• Letting the LLama into your life
• Sending your docs down the Cheshire Cat rabbit hole

With a little humor, Mike hopes you'll come out of his talk with a better understanding of AI -- while taking it less seriously.

Speaker:

Mike is the Lead Technical Writer at Qdrant. He creates clear and engaging documentation for developers and sysadmins. He's created authoritative content in Linux, security, and Identity Management. He's also a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE v5) and an enthusiastic speaker at industry events.

He built a docs-as-code documentation practice from scratch at Cobalt.io, where he also developed a voice and tone style guide for user experiences, taught non-writers to create better UI text, and set up a paid open source documentation contribution program. At GitLab, he guided the documentation efforts for the Manage Stage and developer content. At ForgeRock, he gained seven years of experience writing about Identity Management. According to BookAuthority, he's the author of the #1 Red Hat Linux book of all time.

Mike's mission is to share my passion for new software and to help users achieve their goals with the rigor of a technical writer.