Video.js v10 — Who knew we were actually building for robots

When we set out to rebuild the world’s most widely used open source video player, we had grand visions of the amazing developer experience we were creating, the many thousands of devs who would be reading our carefully crafted docs, and also the looming repetitive coding of features the team had already built in 5 different players before. Then Opus 4.6 dropped and the world turned upside down. Traffic to the website was down because fewer people are reading docs for themselves anymore. We found ourselves reviewing plans more than PRs, while our completed story points were increasing weekly. We haven’t abandoned our developer audience, but there’s a new user in town that demands attention, and here’s what we did in response.