Something interesting is happening in the developer world.

For years, DevRel and community teams focused on documentation, forums, Discord servers, meetups, and events. If developers had a question, they would search, read docs, or ask in the community.

Today, many developers start somewhere else.

They ask Claude.
They ask ChatGPT.
They ask Copilot.

Instead of searching documentation, they ask an AI to write the code, explain the API, or troubleshoot the problem. Sometimes the AI never even sends them to your docs or community.

So the question for DevRel and community teams becomes pretty simple:

If developers talk to AI first, how do we stay part of that conversation?

In this talk we’ll explore what has changed in the developer ecosystem and what that means for community building and DevRel work. We’ll look at how AI assistants are changing discovery, documentation, learning, and even advocacy. More importantly, we’ll discuss how DevRel teams can adapt and use these tools themselves instead of competing with them.

Because the goal isn’t to replace community with AI. The goal is to build communities that work with the new way developers learn and build software.