Discussion

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  @avi_press Last few months. Data a bit messy (so charts are too). But clearly on the other side now.

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  @dee_bosa Clearly it's going to be pay to crawl. Now just need the protocols and infrastructure to support the volume it'll require. Working on it.

• @rnr_0 Romano on x

  Dead internet theory

• @greatnessenergy @greatnessenergy on x

  @eastdakota Well if a human asks Grok a question, Grok searches several or perhaps dozens of sites to generate a response. Plus all the other LLMs, multiplied by a bunch of user queries. I'm surprised humans are still 42% actually

• @erikbryn Erik Brynjolfsson on x

  The agent economy is growing faster than expected, even when you take into account that it will grow faster than expected.

• @giffmana Lucas Beyer on x

  What he actually means is “bot traffic”

• @youdotcom @youdotcom on x

  Our founder & CEO, @RichardSocher, predicted this. The web's next power user is here. 🧠 [image]

• @dee_bosa Deirdre Bosa on x

  Massive change for how the internet works. The web is going headless, and that changes the economics of search/discovery/traffic/monetization

• @alfred_lin Alfred Lin on x

  Quiet but important milestone.

• @zerohedge @zerohedge on x

  Bots watching ads created by AI agents

• @curttigges Curt Tigges on x

  @eastdakota I think it's worth distinguishing between “bots” and “agents”; most bot traffic is definitely not agents, it's scripts

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  @CurtTigges Bot / Crawler / Agent are all synonyms depending on whether you want them to be a good or bad thing, normatively.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @eastdakota @zephyr_z9 Wow

• @nickadobos Nick Dobos on x

  Welcome to the dark forest

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  @eastdakota @CurtTigges Doesn't that mean you're overstating the presence of ai “agents” vs regular bots

• @surisaaab @surisaaab on x

  @eastdakota Very interesting set of countries. [image]

• @tunguz Bojan Tunguz on x

  RIP human internet.

• @championswimmer Arnav Gupta on x

  This is a bit bearish for the Internet adtech economy in some ways.

• @tekbog @tekbog on x

  the internet is for clankers now soon it will be software humans will be free

• @howardlindzon Howard Lindzon on x

  Explains all my gmail and apple text spam ... i'm going back to face to face only :)

• @zerohedge @zerohedge on x

  Time to dust off the net neutrality debate.

• @lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  dead internet theory.  [embedded post]

• r/nottheonion r on reddit

  ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year

• r/Futurology r on reddit

  ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year

• r/ABoringDystopia r on reddit

  ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year

• r/BasiliskEschaton r on reddit

  ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year