007 entries
001 2026.09.23
September 23, 2026
Luke Pierce's 'perfect AI implementation' process gets the order of operations right: data, then workflows, then intelligence. The parts that decide whether the system survives month eight are the parts the playbook waves at.
002 2026.09.16
September 16, 2026
Answer engines only cite what they can read, and a signup form is a wall they can't get past. That's turned Austin Kodra's value-creation principle from a long-term bet into the only way your content gets in front of a developer at all.
003 2026.08.26
August 26, 2026
AI is shrinking docs views, GitHub stars, and event attendance. Measure AI citation rate, agent activation, and whether your community trusts what it is told.
004 2026.08.12
August 12, 2026
AI can write a flawless tutorial, but it cannot fake a dead end. Witnessed practice—real work through uncertainty—is the DevRel format models cannot replicate.
005 2026.07.22
July 22, 2026
AI coding agents read documentation before developers do. Writing for that first reader changes what you explain, structure, and measure.
006 2026.07.13
July 13, 2026
A founder with a day job and family builds LeadSurface via a Loop & Gate workflow, keeping product strategy human, handing disciplined execution to a pipeline.
007 2026.05.12
May 12, 2026
AEO structures a local business website so AI assistants can extract, cite, and recommend it. Here is what that requires.
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