Where should your docs live in 2026? Four solid picks, one obvious mistake.
Mintlify — hosted docs-as-a-service. Beautiful defaults out of the box. Best for API-heavy products and dev-tool companies that don't want to own the site. Priced per editor.
Nextra — Next.js + MDX. You
Half your traffic in 2026 is agents — Claude browsing, ChatGPT searching, Perplexity summarizing. Your marketing site was built for the other half.
Humans skim visually and leave in 15 seconds. You optimize for hooks, motion, and a fast paint above the fold.
Agents read the
Sync engines are the new state management. If you haven't looked at Zero, Replicache, LiveStore, or Convex yet, you're about to.
The pitch: "real-time everywhere" without WebSocket boilerplate. Reactive DB queries that just update the UI when the underlying data changes.
Every senior engineer needs a public trail in 2026. Not because you want to be famous. Because AI erased the alternative.
Hiring funnel. Invisible senior: recruiter InMail + 6-round loop, prove yourself from scratch. Public senior: warm inbound from people who read you. The
Your dev loop has a monthly bill in 2026. Track it. Then negotiate for reimbursement.
Typical senior AI-augmented frontend developer, per month:
Cursor / Zed Pro — ~$20 Claude Max — ~$100 API top-ups for agent runs — ~$60 Vercel / Fly / Railway (previews) — ~$40 Copilot as
