IMO technologies like GPT will have a disproportionate impact on the role of Developer Relations compared to other software engineering jobs.

Some things already seem obsolete, like basic explanations of technologies, and as it becomes easier to fine-tune a model, even more so.

Documentation will be automated, and probably both written and video tutorials and such will also be to some extent.

One thing that may be hard to automate completely - concise and easy to understand guides for new technologies that combine a handful of things together.

For instance combining x,y,z (where z is a completely new API or technology) to create something original and doing so in the most easy to understand way seems like it will probably need some human touch.

Maybe part of DevRel is ultimately just being able to take advantage of these new technologies

Also will be interesting to see how this all affects the social aspect of being in DevRel?

Having deep technical chops will be more important as the aggregation and some of the communication work that today is a lot of DevRel can now easily be automated.

Seems like it will raise the bar on what hiring managers look for in this role if they no longer will rely on DevRel people for doing many of the types of things that in the past would be considered "DevRel"

Just some thoughts but definitely curious to hear what others think.

And of course, to wrap up this thread, I asked ChatGPT what their opinion was on this subject!

You can see the answer here:
gist.github.com/dabit3/59cc42b2a20a8e5c9d35c8b40e5694d1