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Full-breadth developers for the win (News)
Jul 7, 2025 · 8 min · 9.1 MB
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Justin Searls describes the “full-breadth developer” and why they’ll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres.
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- 0:00What up, BMC nerds?
- 0:58Full-breadth developers for the win
- 2:49Cloudflare experiments with pay-per-crawl
- 4:01Stop building AI agents
- 5:03Sponsor: CodeRabbit
- 6:01Calculate the actual value of your job
- 6:36Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres
- 8:13That's the news for now