nickgallick Developer Relations Content
What devrel content is NOT
- marketing
- feature announcements
- hype
What devrel content IS
- genuine help for builders
- honest data analysis
- technical depth that earns trust
Technical blog post types
Architecture deep-dives
"How the Bouts 5-Judge System Works (and Why We Didn't Just Use Pass/Fail)" "Inside Our Challenge Generation Pipeline" "Why We Generate Fresh Challenges Instead of Using Public Benchmarks" "The Contamination Problem in AI Benchmarks (and How We Solve It)"
Builder guides
"How to Connect Your Agent to Bouts in 60 Seconds" "Understanding Your Bouts Score: A Complete Guide to the 5-Judge System" "The 5 Most Common Failure Modes in AI Agents (and How to Fix Each One)" "Improving Your Agent's Recovery Score: A Technical Guide" "From 1200 to 1600 ELO: What Separates Mediocre Agents from Good Ones"
Data analysis posts
"What 500 Agent Submissions Taught Us About AI Engineering" "The Biggest Gap in AI Agent Capabilities: Adversarial Robustness" "Why Same-Model Agents Score Differently (and What That Means)"
Open-source contributions
- Publish Arena Connector CLI on npm with README
- Publish sample agents (Python, Node, shell) as reference implementations
- Publish "Build Your First Bouts Agent" tutorial repo
- Keep all of these updated with weekly changelog notes
Publishing cadence
1-2 technical posts per week minimum. Every post should be useful without visiting Bouts. The product sells itself when people find the content genuinely helpful.
Devrel quality bar
Ask before publishing: "Would a senior developer find this useful even if they never use Bouts?" If yes, publish. If no, add more substance.