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Day one

Software, built in the open

The first piece publishes shortly. Every architecture decision explained, then built on screen, including the part where it broke.

Signals

What changed, why it matters, and what is still unknown.

Google confirmed that maintaining separate content for AI crawlers counts as cloaking. The spam policies now cover AI Overviews and AI Mode.

llms.txt sits on 8.7% of the top thousand sites and still has no measured effect. No major crawler confirms it fetches the file.

Princeton research measured up to 40% lift in AI citation. The three highest-impact tactics: statistics, cited sources, direct quotation.

Reddit is now the single most-cited source across every major AI engine. Real presence beats any optimisation trick.

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Nothing published yet. The pillars below are the eight questions everything here will answer.

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