The AI The Docs 2025 conference (organized by API The Docs) brought together many inspiring peers exploring how AI is reshaping documentation, APIs, and developer experience. The 24 presentations highlighted both the opportunities and the challenges of integrating AI into technical communication and software ecosystems.
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AI The Docs 2025 presentations
AI, Agents, and the Future of Docs
Presenters explored the rise of agentic AI and its implications for developer portals, APIs, and workflows, emphasizing the need to design software and documentation for systems that take action.
- Kristof Van Tomme: Rethinking web applications in the age of agentic AI: tools, spaces, and their affordances
- Ronald Ashri: Designing software that acts: Agents beyond LLMs
- Mehdi Medjaoui: All your docs are belong to us: from UX to DX to AX
- Zdenek Nemec: APIs at the Verge of AI
- Stefan Mesquita and Timothy Goodwill: From APIs to AI: How to Build an AI-Ready API Ecosystem
AI-Ready Documentation and Content Strategy
Talks focused on making content machine-readable, structured, and reliable. From accessibility for robots to new standards in API specifications, the message was clear: documentation must serve both humans and AI.
- David Karlsson: Docs accessibility, for robots
- Ádám Balogh and Kathleen De Roo: Breaking Developer Portal Silos: How a Holistic Approach to UX and Tech Writing Drives AI Success
- Tammy Lee: Discoverability Is an Act of Agency: Rethinking Metadata as Cultural Infrastructure
- Selvaraaju Murugesan: Producing AI-friendly content: Emerging best practices
- Michaela Halliwell: Lying to Robots: A Guide to Terrible API Docs (and what to do if you want to fix them)
- Jorge de Antonio and Anna Tsolakou: How LLMs are changing the way we build API specifications
- Pooja Vijay Kumar and Aman Talwar: Specs Are Docs Now: Designing OpenAPI for Agentic Interfaces
AI-Assisted Maintenance and Automation
Several presentations demonstrated how AI agents can reduce repetitive tasks, enforce consistency, detect gaps, and even “self-heal” documentation pipelines, allowing teams to scale impact without scaling headcount.
- Roy Derks: Effectively use AI Agents to Maintain Your Docs
- Gareth Brinn: From overwhelmed to optimized: How AI Can Boost Your Documentation Team
- Jessie Mongeon: Leveraging AI for Efficient Technical Documentation and Routine Maintenance
- Manny Silva: Self-Healing Docs: How Agents are Redefining the Docs Pipeline
- Elmer Thomas and Maria Bermudez: The Robots are coming for your job, and that's okay
- Kody Jackson: Beyond Style Guides: Using AI (and other things) to Automate Documentation Maintenance
- David Hou: Rethinking Docs as Code in the age of vibe coding
AI for API Design, UX, and Developer Experience
Speakers showed how AI improves API design, enhances search and retrieval, and supports developer onboarding through smarter references and context-aware content.
- James Higginbotham: AI-Assisted API Design and Documentation
- Walter Heck: Smarter Search: How RAG Pipelines Help Navigate Complex Documentation
- Michael Iantosca: Graph-Driven RAG AI Powered by DITA
- Tom Johnson: API quick reference diagrams: boosting comprehension for both human and machine users
- Olaf Stelter: How AI could leverage the DevPortal customer journey
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