alt Hacker NewsThis conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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janalsncm • today at 5:11 AM
In defense of old-school bots, we had to code them up by hand.
Gigachad • today at 5:28 AM
The future is the internet will be entirely bot activity and humans will ether be strapped in to the metaverse reels ai slop feed or they will be outside interacting with people in person again. Both of these seem like likely futures and probably both at the same time.
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Solid insight. What was once profane is now sacred. And it feels like it happened overnight. Lots to ponder on that.
The catalyst is probably the consent of payment processors, if I had to speculate.