Kruno Golubić

Kruno Golubić has spent over 25 years working across IT, education, and open source, as a sysadmin, teacher, helpdesk manager, developer advocate, and technical writer. His relationship with documentation started in 1997 when he wrote a 77-page Linux manual as his high school thesis, long before he knew “technical writer” was a job title.

He holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences and has been involved in knowledge management, training, and technical communication throughout his career, in national public-sector institutions, SaaS companies, and the open source community.

A two-time speaker at Write the Docs Prague (2020, 2024), Kruno believes that good documentation is not a relic of the past, it is the seed from which all knowledge grows.

Talk: Documentation Is Not Dead: It’s the Seed of Everything

In 1997, he graduated high school with a 77-page thesis, a Linux manual written for the next generation of students. He didn’t know it then, but that was the beginning of his technical writing career.

Long before Stack Overflow, before ChatGPT, Unix and Linux had a documentation culture built into the operating system itself: man pages, info pages, HOWTOs, and The Linux Documentation Project. These weren’t an afterthought, they were part of the philosophy. Good software came with good docs.

Today, many people believe that AI has made user documentation obsolete. Why write a manual when you can just ask an LLM? But this assumption misses a fundamental truth: AI systems learn from human-written documentation. If we stop writing, the well runs dry. Documentation is the seed from which knowledge grows, and without it, there is nothing left to harvest.

In this talk he’ll take you on a journey through the history of documentation in the Linux/Unix world, share what he’s learned over decades of technical writing, and make the case for why documentation culture matters more than ever in the age of AI.

Get your free ticket here https://www.entrio.hr/en/event/dorscluc-2026-28348 and see you at the DORS/CLUC 31!