The Branchpost blog
Posts on developer publishing, AI-assisted content, the GitHub-as-CMS workflow, and what we're learning while building Branchpost.
Frontmatter as a contract between AI and your CMS
Why the YAML block at the top of every MDX file is the most important interface in an AI content pipeline, and what breaks when you treat it as decoration.
The cost shape of an AI content pipeline
Where tokens actually go in a Branchpost generation run, why retries dominate the bill more than people expect, and how prompt caching changes the math.
Writing prompts that produce code-aware blog drafts
How Branchpost turns repo signals into prompt inputs so drafts reference real files, real commits, and real decisions instead of generic AI filler.
How we cut our blog build time from 9s to 1.4s
A walkthrough of the bottlenecks we found in our MDX pipeline and the cache strategy that fixed them.
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