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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents (www.theverge.com)
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OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others are positioning AI agents as personal assistants that can perform a range of tasks online. But the web is becoming increasingly unfriendly toward agents, undermining their usefulness.

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[–] [S] 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I’m a few years out of the loop with tech

I'm in the process of exiting completely myself. I've abandoned all my open-source projects. And in the next 6 months, I'll be transitioning to sales at work.

I'm through with computer shit. It hasn't been great since the early aughts, but it was acceptable. Now AI has ruined everything: it made tech uninteresting and utterly joyless.

I look forward to never coding anything anymore, and spending my free time with a fishing rod.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    I'm still enjoying it, but in a different way now. I don't mind using agents to write code. I kinda like it honestly. I just shifted my curiosity to the harness. Putting together the best workflow I can to get the least amount of garbage. Diving in when it inevitably turns to garbage, and refactoring.

    Then again, I spent a long time working with contractors that slopped code. I have grown used to slop for well past a decade, it's just who creates the slop that changed.

    Would I prefer it never got this far and we just had lots of tech jobs? Yes. Do I think we can get back to that even with AI? Also yes.

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