Andrew Brogdon on AI, DevRel, and the Future of Apps

Our new episode of Build to Succeed dropped last week with Andrew Brogdon, Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google, as our guest. Here’s a quick summary of his insights you’ll want to catch.

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Merging Creative Writing With Code

Before joining Google, Andrew earned two degrees in creative writing and even pursued a career as a poet. Today, he’s one of the leading voices in Flutter’s global developer community, helping shape the way teams adopt, use, and innovate with the framework. His unique blend of storytelling and engineering makes him the perfect guide to discuss where DevRel is headed in an AI-powered world.

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AI, Agents, and the New Frontier

In the episode, Andrew breaks down why AI is forcing us to rethink how developers learn, build, and lead. He shares:

• How AI is raising the bar for quality in developer tools and codebases.
  
  
• Why agentic apps that can think, plan, and act using AI agents are moving from theory to reality.
  
  
• The surprising ways AI could reshape languages like Dart, making them easier to read than to write, since AI may generate much of the code.

As Andrew puts it:

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“Take an LLM like Gemini, give it tools, give it a goal, package that up, and that’s an agent. An agentic app would use an agent like that for some or all of its functionality.”

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Rethinking DevRel in the AI Era

DevRel has always been about connecting technology with the people who use it. However, that audience is now expanding beyond human developers. AI agents need upskilling, too, Andrew explains.

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“We’ve never been in the position of needing to upskill AI agents before, but if we’re trying to help developers be happy and effective, that is going to start coming into our work more and more.”

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That shift means building resources that serve both people and machines—whether that’s making release notes machine-readable or rethinking learning tools so AI can consume them.

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Leadership Takeaways

For engineering leaders, the implications are massive. This isn’t just about AI writing code faster, it’s about creating workflows, tools, and cultures that are ready for a hybrid world of humans and agents building together.

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Andrew reminds us that leadership in this moment still comes back to one timeless skill: empathy. Understanding your team—and now, understanding the tools they work alongside—will be the differentiator that makes great organizations thrive.

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A Worth Listening 

If you’re curious about what’s next for Flutter, developer relations, and the future of AI-driven app development, this episode is packed with insights worth sharing with your team!

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