Re: Web Standards and IDE-based AI Assistants for Software Development

AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group,

Hello. I am pleased to share some new developments involving AI and technical documentation:


https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/

https://developers.google.com/knowledge/api

<https://developers.google.com/knowledge/quickstart>
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

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From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 8:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Web Standards and IDE-based AI Assistants for Software Development

AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group,

Computer software is a rapidly evolving domain; there are both "living documentation" and "living standards". It makes sense that editioning technical documentation, standards, and recommendations should be (co-)created for consumption by people and by AI tools and technologies. In this way, AI tools and technologies (e.g., integrated into IDEs and search engines) could answer users' technical natural-language questions, providing the freshest answers, consulting the latest documentation, for the newest versions of software libraries and components.

How can authors and their AI tools ensure that technical documents' contents (e.g., class and interface definitions, glossaries, indexes, frequently-asked questions, explanations, walk-throughs, examples, tips, hints, and more) are well-consumed by emerging AI tools and technologies?


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

P.S.: The Visual Studio IDE now learns from developers as they create software, storing "memories" [1]. These memories help it to understand developers' coding standards and stylistic preferences, making it project-aware and consistent across sessions. These memories are stored in markdown files, some files representing developers' personal preferences, and others representing teams', projects', or repositories' preferences.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes-insiders#18.3.0-ins

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From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2025 8:00 PM
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Subject: Web Standards and IDE-based AI Assistants for Software Development

AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group,

Hello. I would like to share some ideas with the new AIWSS CG. These ideas are about how AI-co-created Web Standards documents might be formatted, e.g., might make use of HTML+JSON-LD, for maximal interoperability and provided features with near-futuristic IDE-based AI assistants.

One can envision software developers providing configuration to their AI assistants including URLs to standards organizations (e.g., https://www.w3.org, https://www.whatwg.org) to subsequently be able to ask their AI assistants natural-language questions, using IDE-specific context data, to obtain results and answers encompassing sought best practices, recommendations, and other software-compliance tips.

A vision is helping developers, seasoned and new alike (computer-science-educational benefits), to receive better quality answers to natural-language questions asked of their IDE-based AI assistants.

For a concrete example, while working with the Document Object Model (DOM), Web developers might ask natural-language questions while their AI assistants consulted sources including, in a primary sense, DOM standards and recommendations.

Bridging these ideas to other AIWSS CG topics: how might AI technical-writing assistants help teams to author and revise standards and recommendations documents which would be subsequently maximally interoperable with, useful for, software developers' IDE-based AI assistants?

These ideas are interesting to me and hopefully are of some interest to the new group. I would enjoy learning more about your ideas, topics of interest, and motivating use cases, into the new year. Thank you.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski