The Future DevEx is Autonomous
Introductory and overview
AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with minimal human intervention. This shift means developer experience (DX) is evolving beyond human-first design.
Today, DX focuses on people through onboarding docs, tutorials, and SDKs. Tomorrow, it must also focus on AI through APIs, schemas, and metadata that agents can interpret, reason about, and act upon without manual guidance.
OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are not just conveniences for developers. They are machine-readable blueprints that AI agents can use to understand and interact with your system.
In this talk, we will explore what it means to build AI-first developer experiences, why your next developer audience may not be human, and how you can prepare your platform for a world where the best developer on your team is an agent.
Today, DX focuses on people through onboarding docs, tutorials, and SDKs. Tomorrow, it must also focus on AI through APIs, schemas, and metadata that agents can interpret, reason about, and act upon without manual guidance.
OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are not just conveniences for developers. They are machine-readable blueprints that AI agents can use to understand and interact with your system.
In this talk, we will explore what it means to build AI-first developer experiences, why your next developer audience may not be human, and how you can prepare your platform for a world where the best developer on your team is an agent.
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Kiah Imani
Developer Better-er @ LocalStack
LocalStack
Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelizes about all things cloud at LocalStack.
She is a public speaker who regularly presents at conferences and trade shows and is a self-proclaimed opinionated knowledge seeker. Kiah also moonlights as a co-founder of canna tech startup C-Trax.
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