Listen "67. Attack of LLM bots"
Episode Synopsis
Our website got slammed by LLM bots from Amazon and Anthropic, which could've cost us $7k in Vercel image optimization costs!Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://metacast.app.Join the r/metacastapp subreddit.Segments[00:20] Introduction and episode overview[01:31] New features and updates[03:02] Why do we keep applying to YC?[08:53] The LLM bot invasion incident[21:26] We re-allowed LLM bots to crawl the site[28:22] Book & podcast recommendationsShow notesPostsLLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem)BooksRed Rising by Pierce BrownLittle Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene PetrovGet in touch🚀 Get the Metacast podcast app: https://metacast.app👥 Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metacastapp/✉️ Subscribe to Metacast newsletter: https://www.metacastpodcast.com👋 Send feedback or say hi: [email protected]📕 Get our book! The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW👚 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com
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