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

#31

It's a shame that Cloudflare rolled out a bunch of neat product announcements under the confusing, noisy umbrella of "Agent Week". Off the top of my head, Artifacts, Email, Mesh (tailscale competitor), all buried.

It's bound to happen sooner or later for every company out there it seems. None of them can keep themselves to "Do one thing and do it well", probably because that means growth eventually stops, and VCs really don't like that, so off in all directions and no direction at the same time we go, and it ends up like that. It's a shame to see the contrast from how CF and others used to be, felt they cared about quality back then.

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

#35
I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else.

I've redesigned my site to have enough content so that AI knows what I have but they have to send the user to my site to use an interactive JavaScript widget to get the final answer they need. So far so good, but not sure how long that will work for.

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

#36
No metric for performance, obviously. That would ruin the entire narrative.

How much CPU time an average request takes is probably the most important factor in the real world. No one running a frontier AI lab is going to honor any of the metadata described here.

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

#37
post #4

I feel pretty uncomfortable by this being a Cloudflare product. Cloudflare is the one that I'm expecting to keep bots out of my site with their AI bot blocking feature. Feels like I'm letting the fox guard my henhouse.

You are missing the section on “x402, UCP, and ACP”: monetization. If the end goal is to get a cut of your paid agent traffic, they have a strong incentive to block free access from automated sources.

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

#38

This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come true, then who cares if your site is agent ready. Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?

It's probably for "agents" that want to make websites for other agents. This has nothing to do with us humanoids.

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

#40
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?

> Is the world gone mad or something?

Short answer: Yes.

Although it's not the world proper, but a very loud and well-paid cohort of shills, astroturfers and spin doctors. Plus the occasional useful idiot and me-too hitchhikers, no doubt.

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