AI + a16z How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents
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Jan 23, 2026 
Hahnbee Lee, Mintlify cofounder focused on product intuition and developer experience, and Han Wang, Mintlify cofounder building AI-powered documentation platforms. They discuss how coding agents reshape what documentation must be, Mintlify’s many pivots and hands-on customer wins, turning docs into infrastructure for agents and internal knowledge, and practical tradeoffs for self-healing, machine-readable docs.
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Docs Became Operational Infrastructure
- Docs have shifted from human-focused reference to infrastructure that powers AI agents and tools.
- When documentation is wrong, agents break, so accuracy now has operational consequences.
Two-Day Prototype Landed First Customer
- Han Wang built Mintlify's initial prototype in two days and showed it to his roommate's YC company to get validation.
- That first migration and hands-on setup won their first customer and unlocked rapid early traction.
Do The Manual Work To Spark Customer Love
- Do the small things that don't scale early: manually migrate and fix customers' docs to win trust and feedback.
- Use those hands-on conversions to learn product-market fit before automating.