Essays
The intellectual output of the Agentic Relations practice.
Practitioner-to-practitioner writing on where Developer Relations is going, why, and what to do about it. One essay per month, minimum.
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April 18, 2026
Your Developer Community Now Has Members Who Can't Read
Introducing Agentic Relations, the discipline DevRel must develop before it realizes it needed to.
AI coding agents now integrate with developer platforms on behalf of the humans who asked them to. Agentic Relations is the discipline for managing that relationship.
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April 12, 2026
The Agent Champion: A Role DevRel Didn't Know It Needed
What happens when you take the agent ecosystem seriously enough to staff it.
The Agent Champion is a specific, definable practitioner role, distinct from the Developer Advocate. It exists in pieces in most organizations today.
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03
April 5, 2026
The Amdahl Tax on Developer Relations
Why the entire DevRel stack is being rebuilt whether you participate or not.
The METR and Jellyfish data are not about AI capability. They are about environment. DevRel owns the environment.
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The Agentic Relations Brief
New frameworks, delivered twice a month.
One original observation, one annotated link, one action item — for DevRel practitioners working through the agent era.