AI
Articles from the Zyte blog about AI.
Is your AI coding assistant stuck in the past?
AI coding tools like Copilot can suggest outdated code and practices. Learn why this happens and how developers can ensure they use the latest standards.
The Scrapy whisperer: Adrian Chaves on Web Scraping Copilot
An interview with Scrapy maintainer Adrian Chaves on Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot, AI-generated parsing code, and building reliable scraping workflows.
Code is cheap, show me the talk: How copilots are re-engineering developers
Discover how AI copilots like Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot are transforming developer workflows—making code a commodity and shifting value to problem-solving and prompting skills.
More data, more trouble: How a perfect corpus corrupted my AI dream
A failed AI experiment reveals why adding more data doesn’t always improve LLM outputs. Learn when web scraping, RAG, and curated datasets actually make AI better.
Claude skills, MCP or Web Scraping Copilot: Which should you choose?
Compare Claude skills, MCP servers, and Web Scraping Copilot to understand when to use each for AI-powered web scraping, data extraction, and production pipelines with Zyte API.
Supercharging web scraping with Claude skills
Learn how Claude skills can automate HTML fetching, AI parsing, selector generation, and structured data extraction to build faster, smarter web scraping workflows.
A data scientist's guide to stress-free product scraping
As a data scientist, your job is to find patterns, build models, and generate insights. To do that, you first need to reliably acquire web data. Competitor pricing, product specifications, consumer reviews - you name it, data scientists need it.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the new best model for writing scrapers
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now the top model in Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot benchmark, narrowly beating Gemini 3 Pro on extraction quality, with a small increase in code complexity.
Data in 2026: Bets and forecasts from web experts
What will 2026 have in store for the world of web data? We asked eight experts for their predictions.
AI and the web: What 2025 changed and what comes next
2025 was the year AI learned to reason. From reasoning-first LLMs to autonomous agents and a reshaped web economy, this retrospective explores what changed—and what’s coming next.
Scraping a synthetic web: Dead Internet Theory meets web data extraction
AI-generated content now dominates the web. Explore the rise of synthetic internet traffic, how bots shape online discourse, and how data experts can fight back.
Gemini 3.0 Pro is the new best model for writing scrapers
Gemini 3.0 Pro outperforms GPT-5, Claude, and other leading LLMs in Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot benchmarks, delivering the highest code accuracy and lowest complexity. See full results, pros, cons, and recommendations for production workflows.