The way developers interact with your platform is changing. Increasingly, they aren't working alone—they're working alongside agents that scaffold apps, read documentation, call APIs, and generate UI as part of the development process.

These agents create a new “shadow persona”: a second consumer of your platform that interprets documentation, invokes APIs, and often becomes the first interface between your platform and the developer.

Yet most platforms aren't designed for this new developer-agent dynamic.

This creates a new challenge for developer enablement. When a software architect asks an agent to explain the value proposition and concepts of your platform, can it access the context necessary to provide an accurate and relevant answer? When a developer asks an agent to implement an integration, does your ecosystem provide the tooling needed for the agent to produce a reliable outcome?

This talk explores how platforms can support the developer–agent pair through non-intrusive improvements along the developer journey. We’ll look at approaches such as turning documentation into agent-accessible context, enabling agent actions with specialized tooling, designing validation APIs for agent self-correction, capturing agent-specific friction in feedback loops, and redefining success metrics around the developer–agent workflow.

If you aren’t advocating for the agent, you’re no longer fully enabling the developer.