Article by: María Fernanda Silva
If you’ve spent any time around Drupal lately, you’ve probably noticed that AI is everywhere — in the keynotes, in the hallway conversations, in the issue queues. You may also have noticed that everyone else seems to know what they're doing, while you're still trying to figure out where to start.
You are not. Not even close.
Those questions — what is actually going on, and where do I even start? — are exactly what the Drupal AI Learners Club was built for.
Where it started
Angie Byron (webchick) has been part of the Drupal community since 2005: core committer, one of the driving forces behind Drupal 8, and one of those people everyone seems to know. She did not come to DrupalCon Chicago 2026 planning to start anything. She came to celebrate Drupal's 25th anniversary and catch up with old friends. But somewhere between the hallway conversations and the late-night tables, she started picking up on something: a lot of people were anxious about AI, unsure what it meant for their work, their identity as Drupal developers, their community — and quietly terrified to admit they did not have it figured out.
"I don't know what is going on, and neither do you," she would later describe as the feeling she wanted to create space for. "It's fine. Nobody knows. It's changing too fast."
That feeling stuck with her. And the Drupal AI Learners Club was born. Not as a space to hype AI, and not as a space to condemn it, but as a place to cut through the noise and talk honestly about what these tools actually do, how people are using them, and where they fall short.
Just show up
The club runs on a simple premise: come as you are. Sessions are low-pressure, informal, and require no prepared presentation. Participants share their setups, their workflows, what is working, and what is not. The first session launched on April 8, 2025, with the topic "Share Your Setup!" and brought together community members to walk through the models, modules, agents, IDEs, and tools they were actually using day-to-day.
Sessions happen whenever someone steps up to talk about something (currently, ~weekly) and are recorded, so anyone who cannot attend live can catch up afterward. And as Angie puts it, there are no stupid questions. Everyone is here to learn, including the people who have been doing this the longest.
Join the conversation
The Drupal AI Learners Club is not here to tell you AI is the future. It’s here to make sure that wherever this is going, the Drupal community goes together — developers, site builders, contributors, and everyone in between.
There are many ways to join the club: attend a session, suggest a topic, volunteer to present, or join the organizing team. Sessions are published to a playlist on the Drupal Association YouTube channel so you can catch up anytime, and the conversation keeps going in the #ai-learners channel on Drupal Slack.
And remember, as the Spanish proverb says: there is no silly question — only silly people who do not ask.
