Three dominant themes from thediscussion
| Theme | Supporting quotations |
|---|---|
| 1. “Agent‑ready” is being sold as hype and a profit grab | “Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?” — cousin_it “Cloudflare is positioning itself to be “the” proxy for agentic web scraping in the future.” — greenavocado |
| 2. Fear that AI will scrape and monetize human‑created content | “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.” — leros “I've 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.” — _verandaguy |
| 3. The whole effort feels like a self‑referential, meaningless meta‑game | “It's probably for ‘agents’ that want to make websites for other agents. This has nothing to do with us humanoids.” — binaryturtle “‘Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent' – what's the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?” — gwerbin |