I just wanted to tick off another article that I had marked for “read later”. In Claude Code is blowing me away, Nick Hodges writes about his surprise how well Claude Code wrote a website plus payment connection for him.
The story itself is impressive, no doubt. But a key sentence (to me) comes later when he writes:
The lesson here is that much of what we are doing now is not coding for humans—we are now coding for other agents.
Nick Hodges
… and, well, I pretty much agree. Whenever I see any LLM-chat sytem like perplexity or chatgpt in my access logs, I see what he means as well. And – I don’t complain about it. This might be confusing, but the fediverse changed my mind.
Wait … the Fediverse?
Yes, the Fediverse!
I was (and am) happy and proud when people find their way to my website and — hopefully — find something that they find useful! And when i enabled the WordPress-fediverse plugin on my website, I was happy to open the content up to the fediverse.
And when I don’t just publish a teaser, the whole post can be read completely in the respective fediverse client – well the same holds for RSS, but with the fediverse, it became really apparent to me. And in both scenarios (RSS or Fedi), I don’t get the reader via Browser to my website. They might just stay in their RSS reader or Fedi-client.
And now? Agents come along as another “client”?
Should I care? Well yes! Maybe I should keep in mind to make the website agent-friendly (just text only, no CSS, ….)? As long as my content generates value to a visitor, I might just feel fine. No mater which client is used.
Of course, this attitude doesn’t hold for anyone who needs to make money from the website visit (like showing ads) or aims for a branding effect! But in my case … I could post my How-Tos also on StackOverflow and don’t get branding effects or credit for it …
Maybe it’s naive. Maybe not. Maybe it’s just the future. I don’t know. But for this website, I don’t want to care too much.
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