>The vast majority of websites you visit don’t have usable APIs and very poor discovery of the those APIs.
replyI think an important thing here is that a lot of websites/platforms don't want AIs to have direct API access, because they are afraid that AIs would take the customer "away" from the website/platform, making the consumer a customer of the AI rather than a customer of the website/platform. Therefore for AIs to be able to do what customers want them to do, they need their browsing to look just like the customer's browsing/browser.
That's true, and it's always been like that, which is why the comment that AI should be using APIs is already dead in the water. In terms of gating a websites to humans by not providing APIs, that is quickly coming to a close.
replyAlso the fact that they don't want automated abuse. At this point a lot of services might just go app only so they can have a verified compute environment that is difficult to bot.
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