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Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by embedding-shape »

I think this is meant for "web apps", not "websites" ("sites"). I tried emsh.cat (a blog) and got 25, it complains about missing an "API catalogue", OAuth/OIDC and a bunch of more completely irrelevant stuff. Also tried HN which is very easy for any agent worth their salt to both parse and browse, can hardly get better for an agent, and it gets a score of 17.

Seems like this belongs squarely in the fun and ever-growing collection of "Cloudflare throws vibe-slop into the world and see what sticks".

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by reaperducer »

fnoef wrote: post #6

Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent

What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

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This, too, will pass. Like Blackberries and car bras.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by xg15 »

Ironically, this feels exactly like the various "semantic web" initiatives, only this time coming directly from the tech megacorps and not the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists.

It will hit exactly the same walls too, namely that the technical details are completely irrelevant - if adopting a standard is actually a negative for websites, because it will separate the site from its users, sites will obviously not do it.

You can lead the horse to water but you cannot make it drink, especially if the water is obvious poison.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by p4bl0 »

The TDMRep protocol [1] is supposed to tell scrappers used for text and data mining whether a ressource can be mined or not. Naively, I would say that a website which explicitly express not wanting to be included in training data would also be considered not wanting to be pulled by agents. I know it's not the same thing, but it still itches me a bit.

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/reports/tdmrep/CG-FINAL-tdmrep-...

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by gwerbin »

_verandaguy wrote: post #17

Conspicuously missing: why should I care? I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.

Like it or not I think "agents browsing the web" is the inevitable near-term future. Some agents will be malicious, many will not. In 2036, HN posters will be complaining about how such-and-such site only works with closed proprietary AI agents, and how their creaky old Mac M5 running Gemma 3 under Ollama can't browse the site properly because it doesn't follow the 2029 RFC XYZ for agent compatibility that nobody ever fully implemented.
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