AI-native CMS vs vibe coding

This video is part of a series    • Drupal AI Summit New York City   recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events Kristof Van Tomme is co-founder of Pronovix, where he has spent over a decade building developer portals in Drupal. The company recently joined the Drupal AI Initiative. An active member of the Drupal, Write the Docs, and APIDays communities, he focuses on how AI is reshaping APIs, documentation, and developer portals. Over the years there have been many different technology waves that have changed how teams build developer portals: Static site generators, MACH, or React based applications, a range of open source technologies like Backstage or Docusaurus. Through all these waves content management systems like Drupal have been a fixture, often brought in out of necessity when requirements for the portal reached a certain level of complexity. Now that AI is making it possible for tech writers to vibe code solutions for highly specific complex requirements, is there still a need for a CMS? In this talk I will explore the difference between vibe coded documentation portals and systems that use structured data formats to enable and constrain AI. Using two practical examples from the developer portal world, to help you decide what approach would be better for your use case.