Articles on API design, documentation, and developer experience from the ReadMe team.
When to Let the AI Agent Draft, and When to Write It Yourself
An AI agent is great at mechanical work and bad at strategy. Knowing the difference is the skill that makes it useful.
Measuring Whether Your AI Documentation Workflow Is Actually Working
The count of AI-generated drafts isn't the metric. Time-to-merge, miss rate, and support deflection are.
Using an AI Agent to Add Interactive Components to Docs
Interactive components only help if you remember to use them. An AI agent that knows your component library can do the remembering for you.
Connecting an AI Writer to Your Spec, Not Just Your Code
A diff-only AI writer sees what changed. A spec-aware writer also knows what the change means. The difference is whether the drafts are correct.
What Makes a Doc Page Cite-Able by an AI Engine
When ChatGPT or Perplexity answers a question, it picks one page to cite. Here's what makes that page yours.
Prompting Patterns That Work with a Docs-Grounded AI Agent
A grounded agent rewards specific prompts. Here are the patterns that consistently produce drafts you can ship.
When an AI Writer Should and Shouldn't Propose a Change
A well-tuned AI writer stays quiet on most PRs. The signal is in the restraint.
How an AI Agent Uses Your Existing Docs as Context
Grounding an agent in the rest of your docs is what stops it from inventing endpoints and contradicting nearby pages.
Mapping Code Changes to Documentation Impact
An AI writer is only as good as its ability to figure out which doc pages a code change affects. The mapping is the hard part.
Why an AI Documentation Agent Needs Your Style Guide
An agent that doesn't know your style guide produces output that has to be rewritten. An agent that knows it produces output you can ship.
