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! Get Metacast podcast app for Android and iOS at https://⁠⁠⁠metacast.app⁠⁠⁠. Join the ⁠⁠r/metacastapp⁠⁠ subreddit. Chapters 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 Download the Metacast podcast app for free iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/metacast/id6462012536 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.metacast.podcast.player Get in touch Contact us: [email protected] Ilya's LinkedIn Arnab's LinkedIn

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67. Attack of LLM bots

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0:20 Introduction and episode overview
1:31 New features and updates
3:02 Why do we keep applying to YC?
8:53 The LLM bot invasion incident
21:26 We re-allowed LLM bots to crawl the site
28:22 Book & podcast recommendations

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