I hosted a private virtual roundtable with a select group of S-tier DevRel leaders to discuss the future of DevRel in an AI driven, post-hype market.
📌TLDR: DevRel isn’t dead, but is evolving
What we think:
- AI is increasing the number of builders, but changing who those builders are.
- The persona is widening from devs to non-technical builders agents.
- Education still matters to some degree, but it’s moving up the stack: less 'how to code' more architecture, design, use cases, and decision-making.
- Docs now matter not just for humans, but primarily for LLMs and agents (and this is why things like skill files are popular rn)
- There is still value in DevRel providing clear direction of what can be built from all these toolsets (ie, DevRel as the chef, skills as the recipes)
- The role is somewhat shifting away from community/content to more technical, B2B-facing roles (solutions engineering, DevX, customer success) tied to real adoption and revenue
- Keeping up with new tools is hard, but important to maintain dev empathy (CT is still a strong signal source)