Sumit Saurabh

Senior Developer Advocate at Lingo.dev

I'm a React developer, keenly interested in the intersection of React and AI ecosystems. I love building and scaling communities and the associated challenges.

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Sumit Saurabh

Session

Docs for the AI age

AI is transforming how developers discover, consume and use technical knowledge.

Gone are the days:

  • When developers would discover a niche tool on some Stack Overflow answer or a Reddit post,
  • When developers would spend hours going through your documentation to understand your product,
  • When developers would use your product even if the documentation wasn't good enough! (although it was never really the case anyway)

My talk focuses on how dev-tool companies must adapt to this changed landscape - one in which AI is an intermediary (between your product and developers) and a constant companion (of developers).

I'll focus on strategies, tools and practical tips that I've used over the course of the past couple of years to ensure that your products remain discoverable, understandable, and effectively utilized in the AI age.

I'll focus on the following key areas:

  1. Discoverability: Cut the noise, get to the point - Practical strategies to make tools and documentation findable among all the AI noise.
  2. Content optimization: Consumable by AI, understandable by devs - Your docs have to be accurately interpretable by AI as well as easily comprehensible by humans. Here's how you do that.
  3. AI sweet spots: Leave it to AI (if it does it well) - Opportunities for you to let AI do its thing.
  4. AI limitations: AI isn't magic. What now? - Handling the gaps created when AI struggles

My talk will deliver actionable insights for DevRel professionals, technical writers and product teams who want to ensure that their docs remain effective - even in the age of AI

Language: en