The threat of AI to search says more about search than it does about AI.

Bots are ≈ 80% noise. Kinda funny that in general analytics are not needed anymore. 80% noise and 20% signal. 80:20. It’s safe to turn off the computer and head outside — you’re not missing much when not on the Internet (it’s smaller than you’d think signal–wise).

I’ve since realized that Hugo’s architecture provides a variety of template optimization strategies. Hugo builds pages concurrently, so it might be hard to see on a modern device but before partialCaches or module mount trickery — there’s still the implicit complexity of the output/lookup model.

Generally the complexity cost of the default output formats are: page > term > taxonomy > section > home. Keeping expensive calls inside a section and/or a home template is usually optimal. i/o and maybe memory should be the only problems with lots of pages.

The blog linked in a previous post is a gem. Too bad the current site doesn’t appear to have all the archived posts, you need strong search–fu to find them on archive.org.