Hahnbee Lee
Co-founder & CTO at Mintlify
About Hahnbee Lee
Hahnbee Lee is co-founder and CTO of Mintlify, a Series B San Francisco company that powers developer documentation for companies including Coinbase. Mintlify was founded in 2022 as a design-led docs company, before AI agents became the main readers of developer docs.
In an AI Engineer fireside chat with Coinbase's Lincoln Murr, Lee shares Mintlify's internal data on agent traffic and what it means for how docs are written and maintained.
Career Highlights
- Co-founder and CTO of Mintlify
- Speaker at AI Engineer (2026) on why most docs readers are now AI agents
Notable Positions
On Agent Traffic
Across all Mintlify-hosted sites, about 10% of viewership was agents at the start of the year. It is now close to 80%, faster than the team's internal bets predicted, while human viewership has not declined.
On What Agents Need From Docs
Agents don't see design or branding. Page size and accuracy matter, because an agent that hits friction stops or switches to another product instead of debugging.
On Automating Technical Writing
Lee separates creative and narrative writing, which benefits from a human, from technical writing, where gathering PRs, Slack decisions and context and placing updates in the right page can be automated.
Key Quotes
- "It's just going to stop. It's not going to debug it." (on agents hitting friction in docs)
Related Reading
- Lincoln Murr - Coinbase's head of AI product, on agents and payments
- Model Context Protocol - One way agents connect to products