# Alexandros Koukovistas > Personal site of Alexandros Koukovistas, Product Director, Developer Experience at Kentico. Writing on developer experience, developer tooling, AI adoption, API design, technical documentation, and the overlap between product and engineering. Based on first-hand experience across software engineering, API product work, developer experience, technical program management, and AI enablement. ## About the author - [About / homepage](https://koukovistas.com/): Alexandros Koukovistas, Product Director, Developer Experience at Kentico. Background spans software engineering, APIs, developer experience, product and program work, and AI enablement. - [Work with me / services](https://koukovistas.com/services/): Independent advisory services around AI adoption, AI strategy and Developer Experience, under the idea of making AI boring: predictable, normalised, useful. Three independent offerings: an AI & Engineering Review (typically a two-week outside review with up to five stakeholder interviews, a workshop and a written report), an AI Adoption Workshop (a facilitated half-day or full-day session that is itself the deliverable), and AI Strategy Advisory (roughly one-hour coaching and mentorship sessions, ad hoc or recurring). Strategy, guidance, facilitation, coaching, reviews and recommendations only, not outsourced development, hands-on coding or operational ownership. Remote internationally, on-site mostly across Europe and the UK. - [Contact](https://koukovistas.com/contact-me/): Digital business card with verified social profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube). ## Speaking - [Talks, workshops, and podcasts](https://koukovistas.com/talks/): Conference talks, meetups, and podcast appearances, with links to recordings and event pages. Delivered "The 80% Opportunity: AI Adoption Without the Code Obsession" at TestCrunch 2026 in Brno (2026-03-26, recording on YouTube), and the same argument as "The 80% Opportunity: Transforming into an AI Company" at the Nottingham DS&AI Meetup (2026-03-05). Guest on the Dad the Influencer podcast, episode 9, discussing "The Other 80% of a Developer's Time" (2026-04-25). Upcoming: organizer and speaker at Kentico Connection 2026, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (2026-10-06). ## AI enablement and adoption - [Early Lessons in AI Enablement: People, Patterns & Pitfalls](https://koukovistas.com/early-lessons-ai-enablement-people-patterns-pitfalls/): First-month lessons leading AI enablement: unifying scattered adopters and skeptics, taming hype with realistic baselines, targeting work beyond raw coding, and measuring impact rather than AI-generated lines of code. - [The 80% Opportunity: AI Adoption Without the Code Obsession](https://koukovistas.com/the-80-percent-opportunity/): Argument that the real AI opportunity is not code generation but the other 80% of engineering work (understanding, operating, learning, verifying), based on Kentico's adoption approach. - [AI in Kentico in numbers](https://koukovistas.com/ai-in-kentico-in-numbers/): Real adoption metrics, tooling mix, and survey insights on AI usage inside Kentico R&D. - [How I built an AI reporting stack by just... describing it](https://koukovistas.com/how-i-built-ai-reporting-stack-by-just-describing-it/): Building an internal AI usage reporting stack (Copilot, Cursor) primarily through natural-language description to an agent, with practical lessons on agentic development. - [AI in 2025: What a Time to be Alive](https://koukovistas.com/ai-in-2025-what-a-time-to-be-alive/): Snapshot of AI in 2025: key concepts, frequently misused terms, and practical guidance for working with LLMs. - [Key Concepts for Working with AI](https://koukovistas.com/key-concepts-you-need-to-work-with-ai/): Essential concepts for anyone starting with AI tooling: models, tokens, agents, prompting, context, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). ## APIs, developer experience, and documentation - [Your API doesn't have to suck!](https://koukovistas.com/your-api-doesnt-have-to-suck/): Why most APIs feel painful, and concrete moves (style guides, reviews, analytics, empathy for varied developers) to reach a Stripe-level developer experience. - [Pro gamer strategies for creating an API style guide](https://koukovistas.com/pro-gamer-strategies-for-creating-api-style-guide/): Pragmatic API style guide tactics: treat the API as a product, favor consistency over perfection, anchor standards across design, security, DX, auth, types, docs, and strategy. - [Facts don't inspire. Why your documentation is more important than you might think.](https://koukovistas.com/facts-dont-inspire-documentation-is-more-important-than-you-think/): Documentation as product: a standard, marketing engine, recruiting and trust signal. Mix factual references with inspiring guides; facts alone don't move developers. - [I don't trust software without versions](https://koukovistas.com/i-dont-trust-software-without-versions/): Why meaningful, consistent versioning creates stability, planning, and deprecation strategy, and how meaningless bumps and unsignaled breaks erode trust. ## Engineering leadership and product - [Customer Success Is Part Of Your Product Too!](https://koukovistas.com/customer-success-is-part-of-your-product/): Customer success treated as a product feature: proactive design, documentation, testing, and focus drive retention; support alone cannot rescue flawed UX. - [The Struggles of Picking Up an Ongoing Project as a Program Manager](https://koukovistas.com/the-struggles-of-picking-up-an-ongoing-project/): Reconstructing project history, earning team trust, realigning stakeholders, surfacing hidden technical debt, and accelerating learning without derailing momentum. - [If you try hard enough, you can find something negative in everything](https://koukovistas.com/everything-can-be-negative/): Why engineers seem "negative": constant problem framing and critical thinking spill into life; that scrutiny is care, but misused it becomes fearmongering. ## Feeds and indexes - [Atom feed](https://koukovistas.com/feed.xml): Full content of all posts. - [Sitemap](https://koukovistas.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all pages. - [Blog index](https://koukovistas.com/blog/): Searchable, filterable list of all posts on the site.