As an acquisitions editor at O’Reilly, I spend considerable time tracking our authors’ digital footprints. Their social media posts, speaking engagements, and online thought leadership don’t just reflect expertise—they directly impact book sales and reveal promotional strategies worth replicating. Not surprisingly, some of our best-selling authors are social media mavens whose posting output is staggering. Keeping up with multiple superposters across platforms quickly becomes unsustainable. I recently built an AI solution to manage this challenge. Using Relay.app, I created a simple workflow to scrape LinkedIn posts from one author (let’s call her Bridget), analyze them with ChatGPT, and send me […]

Recent surveys point to a massive growth in AI-driven bots crawling the internet looking for APIs. While many of these have malicious intent, a growing number are well-meaning API consumers just trying to discover, consume, and benefit from existing APIs. And, increasingly, these API requests are coming from MCP-driven platforms (Model Context Protocols) designed to enable autonomous software to interact directly with web APIs. And, if recent statistics are any guide, they’re struggling. The success rate for multi-step AI-driven API workflows is about 30%. Worse, these clients often don’t give up. Instead, they keep trying—and failing—to interact with your APIs, […]

The following is Part 2 of 3 from Addy Osmani’s original post “Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Parts.” Part 1 can be found here. Great context engineering strikes a balance—include everything the model truly needs but avoid irrelevant or excessive detail that could distract it (and drive up cost). As Andrej Karpathy described, context engineering is a delicate mix of science and art. The “science” part involves following certain principles and techniques to systematically improve performance. For example, if you’re doing code generation, it’s almost scientific that you should include relevant code and error messages; if you’re doing question-answering, […]