Where Did All the Great DevRels Go? Frontier Labs Are 'Disappearing' Top Developer Advocates
blackgirlbytes · x · 2026-10-22
Developer blackgirlbytes voiced frustration with the current state of developer relations: the most talented developer advocates keep getting hired by frontier AI labs and then "disappear" from public view, producing no genuinely inspiring content. She urged them to come back, build crazy experiments, and share with the community — "you are not a product marketer." The post touches on a real industry pattern: labs converting community influencers into internal product-marketing roles, weakening the public technical-sharing ecosystem.
Related event: Top DevRel talents vanish after joining frontier AI labs(2 posts)→
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