By Koushik Dhar,
Publication Date: 2026-10-19 20:00:00
Part 1 of a short series on rebuilding PubHub with AI-assisted development. This part covers the decisions and results; the engineering detail lives in the companion AI for SDLC series.
In early 2026, a security mandate forced the PubHub team to rebuild on a new stack, and the plan allowed nine months. It shipped in about five and a half using AI-assisted development: 12 engineers producing the output of about 20.
PubHub is the publication tool behind Cisco DevNet’s developer content: API documentation, Learning Labs, DevCenters, and Microsites, for the teams who create it and the developers who use it. Authors depend on it daily. Nobody asks for a rewrite of something that already works, and nobody forgives one that breaks their publishing workflow.
InfoSec and the Security Insight team made it mandatory for PubHub to meet Cisco security standards, and the existing application could not get there as built. Compliance meant rebuilding in Golang. Work began in April 2026, and the…
