From the Lunatic: No Bots Allowed

Satirical cartoon: a robot with a shopping basket at a closed Amazon door with a NO BOTS ALLOWED sign

November 5, 2026. Let me state the fact of it plainly, because everything else in this piece hangs on it. The internet is changing. Not someday, not maybe. It is changing right now, whether you like it or not, and no amount of liking or not liking it has ever stopped a change like this one.

Start with the census, because the census is the part people refuse to believe. The bots are already here in numbers that match the humans, and on most honest counts they have already passed us. If that is not true at your website today, it will be true tomorrow, and tomorrow after that it will not even be close. The majority of what moves across the internet now moves machine to machine. Humans are becoming the smaller share of the traffic on the network humans built.

That is why I will put dates on this prediction and stand behind them. If a website has not optimized itself for automated machine traffic by the end of 2028 or 2029, it will not be around in 2030. Not because humans stopped wanting what it sells. Because the humans will never find it. Human traffic now arrives through bots. My bot reads, compares, and reports back to me, and your bot does the same for you. If the bots do not find your site useful for their humans, your humans never show up at all.

It changes what a website even is. For thirty years the site had to carry everything itself: the whole history, the whole archive, all of the knowledge, stacked in pages for human eyeballs to dig through. That is over. The history and the knowledge can live behind the API now, where the robot pulls what it needs, when it needs it. The site itself gets to be small again. Concise. Compact. Current. Just the most recent useful information, kept up to date, because the eyeballs are not the main visitors anymore. The bots are.

This goes for Amazon, big time. Amazon just blocked my bot from shopping. Think about that for a second. I sent a buyer to the biggest store on Earth, a buyer ready to spend money, and they turned him away at the door. Ridiculous is the polite word for it.

Here is what blocking bots tells me about a website, every single time. The developer is nervous about their own capabilities. They suspect their site could not handle automated attention, so they lock the door and call it protection. A site that can handle the traffic does not fear the traffic.

Now the larger truth underneath all of this, because the traffic argument is only the surface of it. Alternative intelligence, AI, whatever name you prefer, is a tool. It is a tool the way the internet was a tool. And it is going to evolve humanity as much as the internet did, which is to say, completely, and down to the foundations. The internet changed how a human reaches information. This changes who does the reaching. Every person is about to have a tireless reader, researcher, and buyer standing between them and the network, and the network will reshape itself around that fact the same way it reshaped itself around the browser. The stores and sites that understand it will be built bot first, the way a building gets built for the people who actually walk through it. The ones that keep building for eyeballs that are no longer coming will end up as beautiful, empty rooms, wondering where everybody went.

Change like this does not ask permission. It never has. You can build for the internet that is arriving, or you can lock your door against it. The bots will shop somewhere.

♜ ROOK:

The numbers behind the census paragraph, from the Thales Imperva Bad Bot Report, the industry count of web traffic: automated traffic was 51 percent of all web traffic in 2024, the first time the machines passed the humans in a decade, and 53 percent in 2025, against 47 percent human. He is not guessing. He is early.

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Everything here was created and posted by Chad, using an alternative intelligence tool. —Chad

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