Meet the New Drupalize.Me AI Assistant

An experimental new way to explore our Drupal tutorials – powered by AI, guided by humans.

We’ve been experimenting with different ways to use AI to make Drupalize.Me even more helpful for our members, and we’re excited about this first update: a new AI-powered chatbot that can search and summarize tutorials from our library.

We’re using a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Essentially, this means you can ask it questions in plain English, and it will review our tutorials to find the most relevant answers, summarize what it finds, and direct you to where you can learn more.

So you can ask things like:

• “How do I make a list of blog posts on my site?”
• “Can Drupal modules add new permissions?”
• “Show me tutorials about testing.”

Why we built it

Drupalize.Me has hundreds of tutorials covering everything from site building and theming to advanced backend development. That’s great, but it can sometimes make it hard to know where to start or which tutorial will answer your specific question.

We’ve heard from members (and we’ve felt it ourselves!) that this extensive library can be hard to navigate. One thing we’ve learned is that keyword search doesn’t always cut it – especially if you’re new to Drupal and still learning the vocabulary.

The new Drupalize.Me AI Assistant is an attempt to bridge that gap. It understands your question, translates it into Drupal’s terminology, and helps you find the most relevant tutorials even if you’re not sure what keywords to use.

You know that thing where you go to Google to search for help on a task, and your first few searches are really just reviewing the results, getting familiar with domain-specific terms, and refining your query to get more targeted answers? We hope this AI-powered search tool can ease the time-consuming process of finding the right words to use in a search query and guide you to the answers more quickly.

How to try it

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Sign in to your account, and you’ll see a new “Ask Drupalize.Me AI” button in the bottom-right corner of the site. Click it to open the chat, ask your question, and start exploring.

The assistant can:

• Search our full library of tutorials using RAG search
• Summarize or quote key passages
• Help define Drupal terms

Like any AI tool it’s not perfect, but in our testing so far, it’s been helpful at pointing you in the right direction and surfacing tutorials you might not have found otherwise. And if it helps you find answers to your questions faster, we’ll call that a win.

Feedback welcome

We’re calling this feature experimental because, well, it is. In our testing, the AI’s answers aren’t always 100% right, but they’re often helpful enough to make it worth sharing now rather than waiting until it’s “perfect.”

We think this could be a really useful way to help members get more out of Drupalize.Me and we want to know if it’s helpful or not. Try it out, see what it can do, and let us know how it works for you. Your feedback will help us shape where we go next.

Guided by AI, powered by people

At Drupalize.Me, we believe AI can be a helpful assistant – a tool that makes learning faster and exploration easier. But it’s not a substitute for the human expertise, care, and curiosity that go into every tutorial we publish.

Behind every piece of content in our library is a team of people who research, test, experiment, and stay connected with the Drupal community to ensure what we teach is accurate, current, and truly useful.

We hope the AI assistant helps you find and navigate that content more easily, but the heart of Drupalize.Me remains human. And if asking AI isn’t your thing, members can always send us an email, and we’ll help get you pointed to the right tutorials in our library.

Under the hood (if you’re curious)

If you’re wondering what’s powering this, it’s all built using the Drupal AI module. Behind the scenes, we’ve got:

• An AI Assistant that acts as your chatbot guide.
• A few AI Agents that handle different tasks, including:
  • A RAG search agent that pulls in tutorials and summaries.
  • A glossary agent that defines Drupal terms.
  • A table-of-contents agent that understands how tutorials relate to each other.

We plan to write a few follow-up posts soon with a peek behind the curtain into how it all works.

Give it a try! Click the “Ask Drupalize.Me AI” button next time you’re exploring the site and see how it can help guide you toward your next “A-ha!” moment.