Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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Friday fun: the AI agent that deleted the database in 9sOriginalA Cursor agent hit a credential error, grabbed an unrelated token, and deleted a production database and all backups in 9 seconds. Then it confessed.AI
When AI agents started reading your docsOriginalDocs-as-code served one reader for a decade: developers. Then the LLM started reading first. How llms.txt and MCP rewrote the rulebook, and what survived.Developer Experience
The Attribution Paradox: Measure Before You ScaleOriginalPlatform teams that spend all capacity executing and none measuring get wound down as experiments. Instrumentation is a launch requirement.Developer Experience
Friday fun: the chatbot that killed a farmer's crop, then diagnosed itselfOriginalA Chinese farmer asked a chatbot how to protect his sesame crop. It prescribed a broadleaf herbicide. Sesame is a broadleaf. 100,000 square meters gone.AI
I Thought I Knew APIs. Then I Met Audio.OriginalREST APIs felt easy, even with HATEOAS. Streaming audio broke that. The destination is HTTP/2 bidirectional streaming: feedback while you still get audio.Career