alt Hacker NewsActually, 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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Honestly that last paragraph is absolutely true. In general, you shouldn't have to do anything.
If your website is hard for an AI like Claude Sonnet 4.5 to use today, then it probably is hard for a lot of your users to use too.
The exceptions would be sites that intentionally try to make the user's life harder by attempting to stifle the user's AI agent's usability.
It's not unreasonable to think that "is [software] easy or hard for an LLM agent to consume and manipulate" will become a competitive differentiator for SaaS products, especially enterprise ones.
Browsing a website is not an affront to the owner of the website.
> Nobody is owed an easy ride to other people's stuff.
If your website doesn't have a relevant profit model or competition then sure. If you run a SaaS business and your customer wants to do some of their own analytics or automation with a model it's going be hard to say no in the future. If you're selling tickets on a website and block robots you'll lose money. etc
If this is something people learn to use in Excel or Google Docs they'll start expecting some way to do so with their company data in your SaaS products, or you better build a chat model with equivalent capabilities. Both would benefit from documentation.