006 entries
001 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.
002 2026.09.09
September 9, 2026
Stack Overflow is back to 2009 question volume, and that's not proof developer community is dying. It's proof Q&A was only ever a function of community, and what's left once AI answers the questions is exactly what DevRel should build for.
003 2026.09.02
September 2, 2026
AI recommendation is a distribution channel that never reports back. I evaluate my DevRel program the same way I evaluate an agentic workflow, checking presence first, then accuracy, and auditing both on a cadence.
004 2026.08.19
August 19, 2026
Neon reached 80% AI-agent-provisioned databases, and Databricks paid a billion dollars for it. The deal shows why DevRel and agent skills shape distribution.
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.
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