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Lee Robinson

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Developer Experience (DX) is about building products developers love to use. I've officially been doing DX work since 2020, but it's been something I've cared about my whole career. Docs make or break developer products. They must be high-quality and available everywhere: on your website, in their editor, and inside AI chatbots. Your goal is write content beginners can understand and experts appreciate. Great docs are a product themselves. They need constant updates and polish. New product features can't ship without the reference docs. Suggestions: Building community is a long-term investment. It must be in your company DNA. It's not a collection of developers you are trying to sell your product to. It's an exchange. They share bugs, you fix them. They submit pull requests, you merge and encourage them. This is how you understand what's working (or not working) with your product. Their feedback shapes the product direction and roadmap. A community forms around a product when developer

Lee Robinson Lee Robinson I’m an engineer and writer . I work on ML at Cursor , helping improve model behavior. Previously, I worked at Vercel . I’ve been coding for 15 years and teaching for the second half. My life’s work is to make technology easy to understand and interesting to learn about. I’m a husband, father, and a massive music fan . Some of my favorite writing includes: Things I Believe Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets Building Low-Level Software with Only Coding Agents How Does Image Compression Work? Developer Marketing Understanding AI You can read my writing or code , or follo

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