AI Is the New UI: Driesnote Highlights AI Integration with XB

Staff Reporter

During the Driesnote at DrupalCon Atlanta 2025, Drupal’s evolving AI strategy took the spotlight, with a live demonstration of how AI is being integrated into Experience Builder. The roadmap update, supported by developer James Abrahams, revealed how AI tools are becoming more capable and accessible across the Drupal platform.

Adoption of the Drupal AI framework has nearly tripled since its introduction. Major organizations including the European Commission and the United Nations are now actively testing Drupal AI.

“AI is the new UI,”

Dries Buytaert said, framing AI not just as a back-end tool but as a key part of how users will interact with Drupal in the future.

There are now over 30 Drupal AI agents, including one that can generate other agents. A new demo showed how an AI agent could turn a static image into a working Experience Builder component using the in-browser code editor — without writing any code.

“We're able to upload the image and then ask AI to help us create this component right there in the browser,”

said James Abrahams.

The AI-assisted editing process includes live previews, real-time CSS updates, visual comparisons to the original image, and built-in undo functionality. AI can even iterate on its own work, allowing users to review and refine with minimal manual intervention. “The agents themselves will build it and check it and compare it to the original,” James explained.

Looking ahead, the Drupal AI team is exploring how this technology could expand to generate full pages or entire sites from design tools like Figma — potentially including content and theming. The goal is to make advanced site building more accessible, even to users with little or no coding experience.

“This is just the beginning,”

James said. Community members interested in contributing are encouraged to join the #ai channel in Drupal Slack.

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