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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by wombatpm on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:45PM (#46532414)
If you can identify scraping bots, can’t you just serve them pages and pages of Lor Ipsum text
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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by zdragnar on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:50PM (#46533512)
Not every human visits to buy either.

The real signal is conversions. If the percentage of people who visit and then buy / sign up remains constant, while traffic goes down, you can conclude LLMs are part of the cause.

OTOH if traffic goes down but conversions goes up in percentage, then it's hard to say LLMs are having a negative consequence.

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