67. Attack of LLM bots

Our website got slammed by LLM bots from Amazon and Anthropic, which could've cost us $7k in Vercel image optimization costs!

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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 recommendations

Show notes

Posts

• LLM bots + Next.js image optimization = recipe for bankruptcy (post-mortem)

Books

• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Little Golden America by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov

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