Category: Industry and Trends

Throughout my career, I’ve seen many things change. I’ve gone from Borland to Visual Studio, from vi to Sublime Text, from Sublime to VS Code… And believe me, each change was a deliberate decision that cost me weeks of adaptation. But what’s happening now with AI tools is something completely different.

I’ve found myself using Copilot in the morning, trying Cursor in the afternoon, and checking out Claude Code before going to bed. And I’m not alone. Developers have gone from being faithful as dogs to our tools to being… well, promiscuous.

“Content Independence Day”: the day the web said “enough is enough”

Today, July 1, 2025, Cloudflare officially declared “Content Independence Day” with the launch of “Pay per Crawl”, its new tool that allows website owners to charge AI crawlers for accessing their content. As a DevOps Manager who manages web infrastructures daily, I can say it was about time.

And the numbers don’t lie: while Google maintains a ratio of 18 crawls for every referral it sends (which is already brutal compared to 6:1 from six months ago), OpenAI has a ratio of 1,500:1 and Anthropic reaches 73,000:1. Basically, they’re sucking up all our content without returning even a crumb of traffic.

I wouldn’t know where to start but I do know how to end this reflection, and it’s so simple that it would be summarized in two phrases, “It’s not a country for programmers” and “Being mediocre is more relaxing and will bring you more”.

When one has been developing for more than 20 years and has always filled their mouth saying that they have enjoyed, enjoy and will enjoy programming, in the strangest or most common languages, with the most peculiar and strange technologies, the most cutting-edge and the most “old-fashioned”, but each one in its moment and only for the most (as much as possible) precise implementation, one should better keep quiet.