The Web Is Getting a Second Reader
Agents now read your site on behalf of people who never will. What that changes about publishing, docs, and the open web.
Insights
This is where I think out loud — what I’m learning, where I was wrong, and what just changed my mind, before any of it is tidy enough to be a lesson.
Agents now read your site on behalf of people who never will. What that changes about publishing, docs, and the open web.
The EU AI Act reads like paperwork until you read it as an engineer. Then it becomes a spec: traces, audit logs, approval gates, and data that stays home.
Everyone says AI in the same meeting and believes they agree. Real alignment is forty rows with correct behavior written next to each one.
The LLM is one component of twelve. Find the constraint, build the feedback loop, and draw the whole system before shipping the node.
AI made me faster — and once, briefly, worse. A field report on what atrophies, what sharpens, and the habits that survived.
Same input, distribution of outputs. What dies with determinism, what replaces it, and where to draw the boundary in production AI.