Alex Black

Alex Black is a Backend Engineer at Zapier. He came to software engineering after a career in mechanical design and spent about four years at MindTouch, a knowledge management software company, before joining Zapier.

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We built a tool to test how page changes affect what agents find. The first experiment showed Markdown mirrors and a separate WebFetch model shape what agents see.
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