AI slop SEO article

Lago, a startup selling support and hosting for AGPLv3 billing software, seem to overwhelmingly post about how building billing software is hard. Such posts can be interesting when it amounts to “here’s a specific hard thing and here’s how we solved it in concrete terms”. Even if recognized as content marketing, it can hook a tech-inclined person. (See: Cloudflare postmortems, once upon a time.)

Unfortunately, all the Lago posts I’ve encountered on HN are more along the lines of “here’s a vaguely threatening list of probably-hard things, so you shouldn’t try to solve them”. (Compare: “Falsehoods programmers believe about X” and the like, where the threatening part is present, but the vagueness is not, so the reader can’t help but start putting together a solution in their head.) There’s probably a target demographic for this sort of thing, but programmers are not it.