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What to build instead of AI agents

(decodingml.substack.com)
233 points giuliomagnifico | 5 comments | 03 Jul 25 00:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.735s | source
1. rvz ◴[03 Jul 25 01:01 UTC] No.44450542[source]▶
Imagine playing the AI agent and scraper cat-and-mouse game all for Cloudflare to block them all by default all to navigate web pages and waste millions worth of tokens just to operate a computer.

The move by Cloudflare will totally ruin the AI scraper and the AI agent hype.

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2. oceanplexian ◴[03 Jul 25 01:17 UTC] No.44450634[source]▶
I don’t see how CloudFlare is going to realistically block someone who is trying hard enough.

They’ll just get the agent to operate a browser with vision and it’s over. CAPTCHAs were already obsolete like 2-3 years ago.

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3. iphone_elegance ◴[03 Jul 25 01:32 UTC] No.44450726[source]▶
Eh, if you control the browser or provide a good plugin you can just have users scrape for you
4. rsanek ◴[03 Jul 25 03:19 UTC] No.44451330[source]▶
they don't have to make it impossible, just expensive enough for it to not be worth it. using vision is a perfect example.
5. OccamsMirror ◴[03 Jul 25 05:51 UTC] No.44452032[source]▶
The funny thing is that a lot of people want the AI to scrape their public website. The same people that likely wrote all of their marketing content with ChatGPT.