Building great SDKs
A guide to creating SDKs that devs – and LLMs – will find a breeze to use, plus an overview of modern approaches for building and maintaining SDKs. By veteran SDK engineer, Quentin Pradet
Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge
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The Great Scrape
Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine
How LLMs & Chatbots Are Bad For the Indie Web
Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.
Open Source and AI
More and more frequently, I get asked about my stance on AI in the context of programming. This is my attempt to summarize my stance for those who wonder.
I am not anti-AI
In every corner of my life right now I cannot seem to escape the increasing fervor of the ongoing debate regarding AI and machine learning in general, where on one side you have people who are completely anti-AI and others who are completely pro-AI, and any point made in opposition to either of these things is seen as a hardline stance that is an attack or something to be corrected.