Articles on API design, documentation, and developer experience from the ReadMe team.
What "LLM-Ready" Actually Asks of Your Team
Making your docs LLM-ready sounds like a project. It's closer to a habit, and that's the harder part.
Why More Context Can Make an AI Doc Agent Worse
The instinct is to give the agent everything. The better drafts come from giving it the right thing.
Teaching an AI Agent Your Page Templates, Not Just Your Words
A style guide tells an agent how to write a sentence. It says nothing about how your pages are shaped. That second thing is where drafts go wrong.
What to Do When the AI Agent Drafts the Wrong Thing
A wrong draft isn't a failure of the system. It's the moment the system is supposed to catch.
Writing Answers a Model Will Quote Word-for-Word
A model doesn't quote your page. It quotes one sentence from it. Write that sentence on purpose.
How to Review AI-Drafted Doc Changes Without Rubber-Stamping
An AI writer opening branches for you is only half the workflow. The other half is reviewing the draft like you mean it.
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.
