Zac Taylor

Zac Taylor

Open-source maintainer

About

I maintain small Python and JS libraries, mostly the kind that quietly sit inside someone else’s project until a dependency update ruins the weekend. I care about clean APIs, boring stability, useful docs, and bug reports that include version numbers. Most of my work sits around developer tooling, scraping workflows, automation, and making scripts less fragile over time. I like tools that reduce maintenance instead of adding another dashboard to babysit. If I ask for a minimal repro, it is not because I am being difficult. It is because the 20-line version usually tells everyone where the bug actually lives.

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How Much Does It Cost to Generate Web Scraping Code With AI?

AI is starting to change the economics of building scrapers. A scraper that used to take a few hours of manual selector work, browser debugging, schema cleanup, retries, and maintenance can now often be scaffolded in minutes.

The part I'm interested in is the real cost, not the demo cost.

Zac Taylor

14h ago

Maintainers need boring tools

Hey hey hey

I spend a lot of time maintaining small open-source libraries and developer tools, usually after work and usually because something broke in a dependency chain.

The tools I'm most interested in are the unglamorous ones: better docs, cleaner APIs, dependency health, monitoring, retries, changelogs, and anything that saves maintainers from answering the same vague issue for the 40th time.

Anyone else juggling Codex + Claude Code + Cursor + Gemini in separate terminals?

The agent CLIs are great individually, but my workflow is a mess.

One terminal for Codex sessions, another for Claude Code, a Cursor tab, sometimes Gemini for quick checks. Long sessions die in scrollback. Project context resets on every reconnect. Diffs vanish. Which thread was for which branch, again?

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