I'm curious whether we'll hit a point where some sites will want to be as friendly to bots as possible (hopefully they'll just shift to having sane, rate-limited public APIs so everyone can save time and bandwidth), while the rest want the reverse.
If you're providing a service, and AI agents truly take off to where people say "Claude, go buy me a new shower hose about 5' long, brushed nickel. Use my usual evaluation criteria and don't spend over $20." then a lot of ecommerce stores are very very incentivized to be bot friendly.
And of course every "content" site is the reverse, wanting to not waste their bandwidth and hoping to score exclusive paid content deals with any entity that might want to scrape them.
If you're providing a service, and AI agents truly take off to where people say "Claude, go buy me a new shower hose about 5' long, brushed nickel. Use my usual evaluation criteria and don't spend over $20." then a lot of ecommerce stores are very very incentivized to be bot friendly.
And of course every "content" site is the reverse, wanting to not waste their bandwidth and hoping to score exclusive paid content deals with any entity that might want to scrape them.