WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Dec 3, 2025

WeAreDevelopers LIVE – Web Scraping, Agents, Actors and more

Chris Heilmann , Daniel Cranney , Ondra Urban , Coo , Gtm At Apify

Apify COO Ondřej Urban reveals how containerized AI agents and headless browsers bypass anti-bot mechanics. Turn your automation skills into profit with their $1 million developer challenge.

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#1 about 4 min

Transitioning from engineer and lawyer to startup operations

How shifting responsibilities from engineering to executive operations define modern startup leadership.

#2 about 8 min

Combating fake ecommerce sites and deceptive holiday discounts

How automated web scraping exposes deceptive retail pricing and fake stores during major seasonal sales events.

#3 about 3 min

Examining the persistent threat of weak user passwords

Why widely compromised default credentials continue to misrepresent overall internet security metrics.

#4 about 4 min

Implications of massive artificial intelligence content generation

The creative and legal impacts of using machine learning models to mass-produce music and web articles.

#5 about 2 min

The persistent performance inequality gap in mobile web

How delivering bloated JavaScript payloads limits worldwide internet accessibility on heavily constrained mobile networks.

#6 about 3 min

Visualizing one million websites via infinite canvas rendering

Building an intuitive and heavily optimized scrolling interface to explore a massive repository of website screenshots.

#7 about 3 min

Why large language models still fail at basic geometry

Understanding the limitations of multimodal models in solving lateral logic and visual intersection puzzles.

#8 about 4 min

Emulating vintage computer environments using WebAssembly architectures

How modern browser capabilities enable complete software development environments and terminal effects for retro systems.

#9 about 11 min

Exploring the deterioration of organic search content discovery

How algorithm-driven search and artificial intelligence summaries are disrupting organic research and content monetization.

#10 about 3 min

Building automated actors and software agents with Apify

Enabling developers to monetize encapsulated scripts and automation workflows on a centralized creation marketplace.

#11 about 6 min

The technical evolution of modern web scraping infrastructure

Navigating anti-bot technologies and shifting public APIs to maintain reliable data extraction pipelines at scale.

#12 about 7 min

Fostering the creator economy for software developers

Incentivizing global developer participation through significant financial challenges and scalable platform monetization structures.

#13 about 5 min

Leveraging modern languages and browser libraries for automation

Understanding the underlying execution environments and libraries required to build robust automated software actors.

#14 about 5 min

Expanding automation boundaries with global developer communities

Discovering unconventional software solutions and diverse technical approaches sourced from international developer ecosystems.

#15 about 4 min

Preserving the joy and curiosity of human coding

A reflection on how the expanding influence of artificial intelligence impacts the creative satisfaction of software engineering.

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Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

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Differentiating developer skills in the era of artificial intelligence

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Using artificial intelligence to reimagine developer experience

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The transforming role of developers in the AI era

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