In an AI-first world, execution is abundant. Meaning is scarce. As more of the “how” becomes automated, the builder's edge becomes judgment and taste: what is worth building, what compounds over time, and what serves a positive-sum mission, not short-term extraction. In this context, the future of developer relations looks less like technical enablement and more like Ecosystem Stewardship. Ecosystem Stewards support the long-term health of the builder ecosystem by communicating shared values, amplifying trusted voices, maintaining alignment without central control, and articulating all these with a globally accessible tone & language. Their work isn’t to dictate what gets built, but to anchor builders in a shared mission. They don’t write playbooks, but create the conditions where permissionless building can do its quiet magic. For those interested, I explored this framing last year in Baseline Ideation Framework: https://paragraph.com/@statuette/baseline