alt Hacker NewsWeb devs are going to have to get used to robots consuming our web apps.
We'll have to start documenting everything we're deploying, in detail either that or design it in an easy to parse form by an automated browser.
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jclulow • today at 12:12 AM
Actually, you don't need to do anything of the sort! Nobody is owed an easy ride to other people's stuff.
Plus, if the magic technology is indeed so incredible, why would we need to do anything differently? Surely it will just be able to consume whatever a human could use themselves without issues.
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baq • today at 12:41 AM
Get ready for ToS changes forbidding robots from using web pages.
Unless they pay for access, of course.
Forget documenting it. I want an army of robot idiots who have never seen my app before to click every interface element in the wrong order like they were high and lobotomized. Let the chaos reign. Fuzz every combination of everything that I would never have expected when I built it.
As NASA said after the shuttle disaster, "It was a failure of imagination."