"The trouble is, the other side can do magic too." - Cornelius Fudge (This is a post about agentic coding)
Timothy Jordan
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Developer Relations and Open Source Executive. Background in engineering, theater, and teaching. Improving life through engineering and art. Opinions are my own.
Publishing an llms.txt is now nearly free, and adoption is climbing. Getting an agent to actually read it is the hard part. We benchmarked both sides. There's good news and bad news.
I scored the 50,074 most-visited websites for how readable they are to AI agents. Not one scored "excellent." The median site is a 52 out of 100. Here is what the web looks like to an agent.
Everyone selling "AEO" slot content right now is reinventing the link farm. We've seen this movie before, when webmasters tried to cheat PageRank. We know how it ends.
In case you missed it, we updated the Vercel Product Walkthrough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFX...
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Speed run a web app into modern infrastructure with AI features, agent-driven development, and collaboration between designers and developers.Timothy Jordan,...
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This also works for getting your existing agents to run on Slack. You don’t have to rebuild from scratch. Same skill, just invoke with "/slack-agent config" instead of "/slack-agent new". x.com/vercel_dev/...
Agent Skills let you package context, workflows, and domain knowledge into reusable building blocks for AI agents. This is how you scale AI without copy-pasting prompts everywhere. vercel.com/kb/guide/ag...
Agent Skills: Creating, Installing, and Sharing Reusable Agent Context | Vercel Knowledge Base
This guide will cover what skills are, how to create custom skills for yourself and your team, and how to publish them to the community.
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Claude Code pro-tip: adding "--scope user" at the end of a "claude mcp add" command will make that MCP have global scope. This isn't terribly well documented, but the obvious approach for something like the @vercel or @linear MCPs.
Claude Code pro-tip: every time you "always allow" a command, Claude adds it to that project's settings.json. You should regularly curate some of these into ~/.claude/settings.json
A lovely read to end your week: "When everything became available, taste became priceless." substack.com/home/post/p...
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I’ve redeployed timothyjordan.com to @vercel.com, and I’m super excited to lead the Developer Experience team at a company famous for excellent Developer Experience.
I just made Macaroni and Cheese and sliced hot dogs for my kids. Because apparently history does repeat itself.
I've been to nearly every #GoogleIO and I'm still getting excited the night before. Can't wait to see old friends, help introduce some new things, and have great conversations about innovation and technology. goo.gle/IO25_DevKeyn... io.google www.instagram.com/googlefordevs/
Open Models, FTW.
Jeff Dean@jeffdean.bsky.social · last yr.Introducing our Gemma 3 open models, the most capable models that you can run on a single GPU or TPU. Multimodal, multilingual, 128k context length, and exceeds quality of other open models that are an order of magnitude larger in terms of hardware footprint. 🎉 blog.google/technology/d...
Caption this, mine: "I once caught a fish this big." I sat down with the ATO team to discuss Open Source, how generative AI will impact Developer Relations, and some best practices for using AI in your company. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g602... Article: allthingsopen.org/articles/ai-...
How AI is impacting the developer experience: DevRel insights from Timothy Jordan
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I hope you see you at #GoogleIO on May 20-21, 2025. Live streamed keynotes, sessions and more: io.google
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This is cool. We've open sourced the code that powered Pebble smartwatches. Check it out: opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-...
See the code that powered the Pebble smartwatches
The source code for the Pebble operating system in now open, to support the volunteer community maintaining Pebble watches.
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I'm a big fan of static site generation. I use Jekyll with Firebase Hosting (it can also be used with GitHub), but same paradigm. This post makes me want to check out Astro as well, @puf.io !
Frank van Puffelen@puf.io · 2y agoI use Astro for puf.io. From markdown files it generates a static site that I host on GitHub Pages. Sometimes I include inbound redirects (e.g. old URLs) in the .md, but Pages doesn't support custom HTTP status codes like 301. Solution: puf.io/posts/astro-s...
