I shipped my third llms.txt this month and felt extremely productive. The kind of productive where you close the laptop, pour a coffee, and feel like the entire AI-search problem is now solved on a personal level.
Then I opened 30 production llms.txt files from the companies the rest of us are supposed to be learning from. Anthropic. Stripe. Vercel. Cloudflare. Hugging Face. Mintlify. Astro. Linear. The names you cite when you tell someone "look, the serious players are doing it."
24 of the 30 files had at least one of five problems. Three of those problems were in my own files.
That coffee got cold.
How I ran the audit
