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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by jsheard on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:33PM (#46531332)
If synthetic data is so much better then what are AI crawlers still DDOSing everyone for? Are they stupid?
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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by philipkglass on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:11PM (#46534585)
Mostly. I had the "AI bot tsunami" problem on my own personal site and blocked a bunch of bot user agents in robots.txt. Most of them were from companies I had never heard of before. The only big AI name I recognized was GPTBot from OpenAI.
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