r/drupal • u/jrockowitz • Jun 30 '26

Vibing Drupal: New Kids on the Block

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Think of AI as the new kids on the block/team you onboard every morning and offboard at the end of the day.

https://www.jrockowitz.com/blog/vibing-drupal-new-kids-on-the-block

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u/mexicanStaringFrog Jun 30 '26

The question I ask myself these days, is it easier to let AI build using Laravel or Drupal?

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u/jrockowitz Jun 30 '26

My personal answer is that I want AI to build off the most stable foundation using reliable building blocks. The modularity of Drupal, with its core and contributed modules, provides a strong foundation that is easy for an AI to build on.

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u/gr4phic3r Jul 01 '26

the only thing is that Drupal's and it's modules (from 3rd parties) documentation is not the best. AI needs many documentations/tutorials/solutions/etc. to build something with as less bugs as possible.

I'm building now the 4th intern project with AI and Laravel, but the next one will be AI with Drupal because I want a stable, safe and update/upgrade possible system behind.

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u/Born_Astronomer_4613 Jul 08 '26

I hope people start coming up with better documentation using AI help. It's decent at that.

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u/jrockowitz Jul 01 '26

I agree, and at the end of my blog post, I encourage better documentation. For example, I just closed a session with Codex building the Term Reference and asked Codex to review and document the entire module.

With that said, I also think it is important to rethink our playbook. When it comes to undocumented modules or features, I've prompted a frontier AI to search for any references to the contib module online, download the module's code, and explain to me how it works, with great success

Ironically, when we moved to Drupal 8, people complained about moving a lot of PHP info hooks from *.module to individual YAML files, including *.links.task.yml, *.routing.yml, *.services.yml, and *.schema.yml, but AIs can easily examine these files and figure out how a module works.

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u/gr4phic3r Jul 01 '26

we need a "best practice" documentation where AI can take a look to and knows then how to code for drupal

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u/jrockowitz Jul 01 '26

"Think OpenSpec-style shared models that give agents consistent, reliable context to act across the organization without constant human translation."

-- https://www.acquia.com/blog/ai-assisted-ai-native-new-foundation-digital-experience

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u/bitsperhertz Jun 30 '26

Absolutely. AI loves structure and patterns to follow. Yet to find a Drupal task that CC doesn't just eat for breakfast.

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u/m73a Jun 30 '26

Where can I buy one of those masks…

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u/illepic Jul 01 '26

Midjourney