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Roughly 45% of the traffic to your developer documentation in 2026 isn't human. That's not a metaphor. Mintlify, which hosts docs for a few thousand engineering teams, published a traffic study in March 2026 showing that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, ChatGPT, and friends) now account for 45.3% of all requests to their hosted docs sites. Human browsers are at 45.8%. Two of those agents, Claude Code and Cursor, make up 95.6% of all the bot traffic. So when your docs are wrong...

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