Not looking for anything secret—just interested in hearing about strategies that produced better results than expected in 2026.
Everyone has an opinion on llms.txt, but when it comes to actual evidence we have only single-site logs or the odd small-scale experiment.
Using Ahrefs Web Analytics and Bot Analytics, we analyzed the server logs and live traffic of 137K domains, plus the user agents hitting all of them.
Here’s what we found.
Top findings
I’m curious to know if anyone has been using Claude with Ahref API and what results they get.
Two juniors on my team. Both ship fast. Both grew up on Cursor and Claude Code basically. one of them runs Coderabbit on his PRs too, which catches stuff but i ALSO think it also means he never has to sit with his own mistake
last week one of them pushed something that broke in staging and I watched them paste their own function back into Claude going "what does this do." code they wrote on monday. THEIR OWN CODE. that they merged
I know how I sound. every senior ever has complained about juniors not knowing X and I swear I'm trying not to be that guy. but when I came up you had no choice but to sit with broken shit for hours and slowly build a map of the system in your head, and that part sucked but it's also where the actual learning lived (for me anyway). now you don't have to suffer through it. you just ask.
(not an anti-AI post btw, I use it constantly)
year 1 is fine, year 1 they ship features. it's year 5 I keep thinking about. one of them on call at 2am, prod doing something insane, AI confidently wrong, and they need to reason through an unfamiliar codebase under real pressure. I don't know what that looks like for someone who never built the muscle
Do people not realise how much money goes into training LLM models ?
We are a small marketing team in a manufacturing company, essentially operating as a “one-person-led setup + outsourced collaboration” model.
The tools we’re currently using are Copilot, ChatGPT, and AccioWork.
Overall, this stack actually fits us quite well:
Copilot handles day-to-day office work, emails, and Excel
ChatGPT is used for content creation, analysis, and writing
AccioWork is used for inquiry and supplier information management, and we’ve recently started using its new feature for supplier comparison analysis
For teams operating with just a few people, are there any other AI tools you would recommend?
I was wondering if it had started yet—and, more importantly, what exactly he teaches and what data he uses
Launched my AI analytics tool 5 months ago and deliberately skipped Reddit. Partly because it felt a bit sketchy, partly because I had no idea what I was doing there. Results: decent on Twitter, fine on Product Hunt, genuinely mediocre on MRR.
For those who've done both a Reddit launch and a no-Reddit launch, would you skip it again, or was that my actual mistake? Trying to decide what to do differently for my next one.
Edit: Aye, you are right. Running the next launch through Signals for sure. Budgeting $220 as described. Will share the retro in 90 days and probably post a follow-up thread here.