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Drupal: the best placed to succeed in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)?

Dries Buytaert argues that Drupal’s structured architecture, APIs and growing AI agents make it the CMS best placed to thrive in an AI-dominated market.

Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, is as unequivocal as other CMS and DXP leaders. The arrival of AI has completely reshaped the market; that is no longer in dispute. The question now is which platform the agencies or companies will choose to prosper in an AI-dominated world. On his blog, Buytaert argues that Drupal is the best-placed platform to prosper in the AI era.

The Drupal founder sets out the reasons why he believes Drupal is the right software choice. First, all the pain involved in the leap from Drupal 7 to 8 has, unknowingly at the time, made Drupal the best-positioned framework to succeed with AI.

For AI to work properly, a CMS needs a fully comprehensible, well-structured system so it is easily understood by AI. All this Drupal logic—which involves entity types, field definitions, relationships and workflows—must not only be machine-readable but also exposed in a modern, practical way via APIs. And Drupal delivers on all of this.

“Most platforms were not designed with that kind of structured access in mind. Drupal has been moving in that direction for over a decade. AI agents can query Drupal’s structure, understand relationships between entities, and make informed decisions based on both content and configuration,” Buytaert writes on his blog.

Moreover, AI is “the new user interface”, and we are seeing this right now across other publishing platforms as well. For newcomers, Drupal’s flexibility can be overwhelming, and AI should play a pivotal role in easing the platform’s steep learning curve.

Drupal’s commitment to AI is comprehensive and includes Drupal CMS. The framework already has two AI agents and, through the Drupal AI Initiative, continues to build around AI.

What role will freelance professionals and agencies specialising in Drupal play in the new AI-dominated ecosystem? Buytaert believes AI will provide a strong starting point for most, but agencies will still need to be there to meet complex requirements and needs, as well as to offer expertise and support when AI cannot provide it adequately.

* Original article written in Spanish, translated with chatGPT and reviewed in English by Jorge Mediavilla.

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