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234: OpenAI's Dots Are Cute. What They Do With Your Data Is Not.

October 2, 2026 · 15 min

OpenAI's new agents, dots, are fuzzy balls with eyes that you name and dress. They also sign into websites with your saved passwords and read the email you connect. I went through OpenAI's pages to see what the face is covering. What a dot…
233: Muse Is Why Meta Has No Business Building The Agentic Web

September 26, 2026 · 18 min

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agent, Muse, needs to be discreet. The same month, some of the calls it made to businesses were placed by people in a call center. I went through what he told Joanna Stern and Alex Heath about Muse's privacy…
232: The Agentic Web Is Still A Single-Player Game

September 16, 2026 · 19 min

A hundred and seventy-two companies have put their name to A2A, the standard for AI agents at different companies to find each other and talk. I took the web address the project lists next to each name and asked 135 of them the question…
231: A Paywall Stopped ChatGPT From Reading The Article. It Confidently Summarised It For Me Anyway.

September 10, 2026 · 23 min

A magazine put a paywall in front of its journalism to stop AI reading it. I tested what that paywall actually checks. It reads one line of your request, the name you type in yourself, and compares it against a list. Say who you are and…
230: A Shoe Company And A Cookie Company Now Say The Exact Same Thing To AI Agents

August 12, 2026 · 17 min

On August 5 Shopify switched on a second way into every store on its platform, built for AI agents instead of people. Nothing to install, no merchant asked. I opened three unrelated stores, Allbirds, Brooklinen and Partake Foods, and asked…

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229: Does llms.txt Work? What 137,000 Domains' Server Logs Show

August 5, 2026 · 20 min

Most of what's sold as AI search optimization has never been tested by the people selling it, and this episode is me checking the biggest one against server logs. Ahrefs looked at 137,000 domains in June: 97% of llms.txt files got zero…
228: OpenAI Killed Its AI Browser

July 24, 2026 · 18 min

I came back from a month off the grid to find OpenAI had killed Atlas, its most glamorously launched product, nine months after the keynote. It barely matters, though. The automated, non-human visitor Atlas was sending to your website is…
227: ChatGPT Shopping Is Scraped Google Shopping with Malte Landwehr, CMO/CPO at Peec AI

June 17, 2026 · 51 min

I sat down with Malte Landwehr, who left VP of SEO at Idealo to become CPO and CMO at Peec AI, the platform that tracks what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews actually cite. We open on the strangest finding of the year…
226: Most Brands Are Chasing AI Visibility Backwards with Alisa Scharf, Chief AI Officer at Seer Interactive

June 3, 2026 · 47 min

This week I welcome Alisa Scharf, Chief AI Officer at Seer Interactive, to the podcast, to ask the question she fires back at every client who walks in wanting to "win at AI visibility." Her answer flips the whole project: fix what the…
225: Every Website Already Has An Agent Experience And Most Are Bad With Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann

May 20, 2026 · 45 min

The user-agent string in the HTTP header has been there since the 1990s. The web was built with software navigating it on someone's behalf. For thirty years that someone was a human. That changes now. Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of…
224: Google's OS-Level AI Agent: Building Samantha Into Android

May 14, 2026 · 22 min

We are significantly closer to movie Her than we were just 6 months ago. Most coverage reads Google's last six months as a string of independent product updates. They aren't. Read together, they're the whole agentic-web stack closing one…
223: I Scored 33/100 on Cloudflare's New Agent-Readiness Scanner

April 22, 2026 · 22 min

I ran the Cloudflare Agent Readiness scanner on nohacks.co, got 33 out of 100, and felt insulted. One toggle later the score was 67. That gap is where this episode starts. My case: the web is splitting into two economies. A…

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About the show

AI is changing the internet, and nobody asked us if we wanted it changed. So every week I go and look at one thing it did: a website that started charging robots to read it, an assistant that got turned away at the door and answered anyway, a company that promised something a year ago and can't show a receipt. Then I tell you whether it's good, bad, or pointless, and what to do about it, whether you use the web or build it. Around fifteen minutes per episode, usually me on my own, with occasional guests. Hosted by Slobodan Manic, a CXL-certified conversion specialist, WordPress Core Contributor, and the creator of Machine-First Architecture, the framework for building websites for the agentic web.