AI Strategy
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To Block AI Bots, Longest Match Beats File Order
By Petru Popa ·Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync generates your robots.txt from the AI bot policy in your dashboard and prepends it to whatever your origin already serves. Prepending is not overriding, and the standard explains why a narrower Allow you wrote years ago still wins.
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The Watermark Is Sparsest Where You Would Audit
By Petru Popa ·Anthropic will watermark future Claude models using a version of SynthID-Text. The announcement and the Nature paper behind it agree that the mark weakens on code, short answers, and factual passages, which is where most enterprise detection requirements are aimed.
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The 50% Circuit Breaker Counts Disclosures, Not Code
By Petru Popa ·Rust now has a written policy for LLM-assisted contributions to rust-lang/rust, including a threshold that suspends merges when more than half of PRs in a six-week window are LLM-created. Read what the threshold counts and the policy stops looking like a quality control.
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Why Enterprise AI Doesn’t Ship
By Petru Popa ·Most enterprise AI dies between the demo and production. The blocker is rarely the model — it’s integration, data, and evaluation. Here’s where it breaks and how to close the gap.
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Buy, Build, or Fine-Tune? A Decision Guide for Enterprise AI
By Petru Popa ·Not every AI problem deserves a custom model — and not every one is solved by an off-the-shelf API. A simple framework for choosing between buy, build with RAG, and fine-tune.
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