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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SorcerAI notes</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/</link><description>Aria Pramesi researches AI search, builds agent-native products, and publishes the evidence, systems, and field notes behind the work.</description><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:20:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<item><title>AI crawlers spend real budget on dead URLs</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/ai-crawlers-spend-budget-on-dead-urls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/ai-crawlers-spend-budget-on-dead-urls/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Since 2026-07-31, one large content site in the measured fleet has returned 404 to 12,680 of 28,471 GPTBot requests. On this site, 109 of 135 ChatGPT-User requests did the same.</description></item><item><title>When robots.txt and the edge disagree, the crawler loses</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/robots-txt-and-the-edge-disagree/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/robots-txt-and-the-edge-disagree/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A services site in the measured fleet permits Claude-SearchBot in robots.txt. Its edge rules have since refused 1,999 of that crawler’s requests with 401 or 403.</description></item><item><title>robots.txt is a request, not a fence</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/robots-txt-is-a-request-not-a-fence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/robots-txt-is-a-request-not-a-fence/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A local-services site disallows ClaudeBot in robots.txt. Since 2026-07-31, 60 of that crawler’s requests were served successfully anyway.</description></item><item><title>SorcerAI needed a public record, not another agency page</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/sorcerai-needed-a-public-record/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/sorcerai-needed-a-public-record/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The old site sold generic automation while the actual work had moved into AI search, agent systems, QA, products, and a frankly unreasonable number of repositories.</description></item><item><title>Proof is a data model, not a testimonial section</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/proof-is-a-data-model/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/proof-is-a-data-model/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:40:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A working repository, a private client outcome, a live product, and a complete specification are four different things. The site now says which one it means.</description></item><item><title>Repository volume is not a portfolio</title><link>https://sorcerai.co/notes/repo-volume-is-not-a-portfolio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sorcerai.co/notes/repo-volume-is-not-a-portfolio/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Owning a hundred repositories proves that GitHub permits poor impulse control. Curation proves judgment.</description></item></channel></rss>