Paul Conroy

@conroyp

CTO at square1.io and transient fad enthusiast

Dublin

conroyp.com

Joined December 2008

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Paul Conroy
@conroyp
Oct 14
HTTP 402 "Payment Required" spent 20+ years mostly unused, or sent only by people mistyping 403s in their apps. Now it's how AI agents pay for things. I sat down with Ben Smith at @stripe to talk #MPP , agentic commerce, and what developers need to know: youtu.be/Nv-dRPwwVxo?si…
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Paul Conroy
@conroyp
Oct 11
"An AI agent used my site" up to now has meant a screenshot, find the button, click, pray the DOM didn't move. It's brittle, and it burns a staggering number of tokens. WebMCP flips it: your site hands the agent tools to call directly. I tested it - ~27× fewer tokens used. 🧵
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Paul Conroy
@conroyp
Oct 4
When you've got bots taking your data, technical blocks are an option, but response poisoning can be far more effective retaliation. If the poisoned data looks legit, it's even harder for your adversary to spot & deal with. An old story where we did this: conroyp.com/articles/proje…
Richard Hearne
@RedCardinal
Oct 4
Looks like Google may have switched from blocking scrapers to instead serving poisoned responses. Very interesting strategic move IMO. Far more damaging, and much more difficult to counter than getting blocked. Have to be honest - smart change.
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Paul Conroy
@conroyp
Sep 21
Installing the full AWS SDK for #PHP just to perform a few S3 operations adds quite a lot of unnecessary weight. In serverless deployments and CI pipelines, that means more to package, upload, unpack and process, and can lead to less room within platform limits.
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Paul Conroy
@conroyp
Sep 18
Back to Vilnius for @BuildStuffConf this December! Always a highlight, and this year marks its 15th birthday. Also looking forward to seeing Dublin from the other side of the video portal again 🇮🇪🤝🇱🇹 #BuildStuff15 #buildstuffconf #AgeOfAgency
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