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Now AI agents need what RSS does

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Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

#21

>RSS was declared dead in 2013 Where? Not within the homelab space.

They probably meant it hyperbolically, but RSS was on a downward slope during that period. The recent uptick is fascinating. https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0n5tx&date=all&ge...

No, 2013 was demise of Google Reader, which was at the time very good and very accessible so it was how a lot of people used RSS

Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

#24
> The same logic will now extend to any written content that agents need to reliably consume.

Get your rapacious hands away from my website please.

> and actively degrades programmatic access.

That's your problem. You choose these tools. If they can't function without ripping everyone else off then why do you persist in using them?

Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

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I built a site that's similar in concept to Hacker News, but is entirely fed by RSS feed content, that is then bullet-pointed summarized on the article page: https://engineered.at/ But I also extract topics automatically from the content too with LLMs, to allow for dynamic topic pages that users can separately subscribe to to tune their feeds. Haven't promoted it much, but it's pretty amazing what you can do for a co…

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Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your favorite feeds?

These are my top ones: Protesilaos: https://protesilaos.com/codelog.xml and https://protesilaos.com/commentary.xml HN: https://hnrss.org/frontpage Sacha Chua: https://sachachua.com/blog/feed/index.xml David Revoy: https://www.davidrevoy.com/feed/rss Davep: https://blog.davep.org/feeds/all.atom.xml xkcd: https://xkcd.com/atom.xml YouTube - Michelle Khare: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCGGZ_PO...…

TIL you can get RSS feeds for YouTube channels. Thanks for this!

Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

#29
post #16

I built a site that's similar in concept to Hacker News, but is entirely fed by RSS feed content, that is then bullet-pointed summarized on the article page: https://engineered.at/ But I also extract topics automatically from the content too with LLMs, to allow for dynamic topic pages that users can separately subscribe to to tune their feeds. Haven't promoted it much, but it's pretty amazing what you can do for a co…

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That’s…bizarre. Let me take a look

EDIT: just checked in firefox, I don't see an issue. can you email me at me@dchuk.com and maybe I can debug with you?

Re: Now AI agents need what RSS does

#30
post #16

I built a site that's similar in concept to Hacker News, but is entirely fed by RSS feed content, that is then bullet-pointed summarized on the article page: https://engineered.at/ But I also extract topics automatically from the content too with LLMs, to allow for dynamic topic pages that users can separately subscribe to to tune their feeds. Haven't promoted it much, but it's pretty amazing what you can do for a co…

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