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What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic


Who said you had to be reasonable?

You started to build your perfect life management app, but your personal contribution is 100% glue code, between Google and Plaid and OpenAI and Twilio and Home Assistant and a dozen other services. But it’s rare that we peel back the curtain to show all the infrastructure we built to understand what real users and browsers look like, and what tools bad actors are using to try to avoid detection, and the subtle warning flags that can be picked up if you know what to look for. It’s unbelievable how much software is like that: built on hours, weeks, years of running every version of countless browsers, peeking into private forums to learn about the latest anti-detect, and god-knows-whatever’s-needed to send a text message.

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