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Technical writing has always evolved to meet new constraints. We learned information architecture when documentation moved online. We learned topic-based authoring when content management systems demanded structured reuse. We learned docs-as-code when engineering teams needed documentation in the same workflows as the software it described. Each shift asked us to develop new methods — and each time, the writers who understood the new constraints earliest produced the best outcomes.

The current shift is this: documentation now has a second audience that processes it instead of reading it. And the methods that serve this audience start with frontmatter.