Articles and thoughts on modern web development, AI, and technology by Matt Biilmann
DeepSeek's cheap, good-enough models mark a tipping point where intelligence becomes ubiquitous and almost free, splitting the market between a frontier battle for SOTA and an open race for near-free intelligence.
AI isn't just about efficiency—it's about unlocking ambition. Small experiments on a personal blog reveal how AI agents let us push ideas further and build things we'd never have time for.
Two typographic changes to my blog, inspired by Cheng Lou's pretext library and the Knuth-Plass text justification algorithm.
When my personal AI agent got my Google account disabled, it highlighted a fundamental challenge: how do we distinguish helpful personal agents from malicious automation?
Reflecting on the first year since introducing Agent Experience (AX) and why the term is more crucial and important today than ever.
Explore predictions for 2026 in web development, including AI agent-driven changes, autonomous innovation, and the evolution of computer literacy.
AI code agents have broadened web development from 17 million professionals to potentially 3 billion online users, revolutionizing software creation.
Is AX Agent Experience or Agentic Experience? Let's keep it simple. Users (UX), Developers (DX) and Agents (AX).
Exploring CLI based AI coding agents as the humanoid robots of cyberspace and their potential shaping future digital interactions.
Celebrating the impact of the WWW, 36 years since its announcement, and reflecting on its evolution and future alongside AI and digital platforms.
Exploring the innovation of building a Notion publishing system without writing code, leveraging AI for seamless content transformation.
Exploring the evolution and implementation of Agent Experience (AX) at Netlify and across the tech industry.
How I built a personal Model Context Protocol server with Windsurf and added an Agent Net Promoter Score tool to gather LLM feedback.
Today marks exactly 10 years Netlify launched, and I’m reminded of our founding moment: a time when the industry was about to fundamentally shift and a new type of developer emerge.
Perfecting the AX of the web can help reignite the web's creative potential and reclaim mindshare from closed platforms.
As builders, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI Agents will have as the user of a product or platform.
Introducing a new blog from Matt Biilmann, built with bolt.new and Astro, celebrating the openness of the web.
Netlify announces its participation in the OpenNext project to enhance Next.js deployment across cloud platforms.
Today, Netlify celebrates five million developers. Join us and celebrate on the web, with our celebration site and interactive 3D game.
Build an AI generator that creates webpages in the style of GeoCities with the help of Langbase and OpenAI.
Netlify’s Platform Primitives and Netlify Edge Functions make Partial Prerendering simple to implement in plain static HTML without any framework or even build system.
Learn how Netlify's granular cache controls, and planning your technical architecture, can make edge rendering very fast even when your data is not at the edge.
JavaScript fatigue has become a common phrase in the world of today’s front-end developers. It can seem like there’s a new hyped framework, architecture, command line tool, or SaaS developer service…