alt Hacker NewsAll the websites currently blocking Claude Code or other AI agents are fighting a losing battle. Computer-use is in the early stages, and the thing preventing mass-adoption seems to be the number of tokens it takes. Agents can fumble around trying 10 CLI commands that don't work before finding the right one and we barely notice. But other visual agents (browser use / computer use etc) end up eventually fumbling on to the right thing, but we don't have the patience to wait 20 mins. to click a button. As tokens get cheaper + faster, we probably get the models that can use a UI interface just as natively as a CLI.
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nobody can block actual LLM providers, they use spoofed requests to scan web for content, sometimes even using residential proxies.
And the lethal trifecta but I suppose that's all agents as of now anyhow. Every AI provider has major warnings about letting AI have access to PII in the browser.
They don’t need to be 100% effective they just need to make you afraid enough of being banned to not bother trying.
> the thing preventing mass-adoption seems to be the number of tokens it takes.
Try the exhorbitant expenses and ballooning waste of generated electricity and usable water.
Tokens cheaper? I don't think that seems to be the case ... VC funded tokens were there to build user base and token price will go up as they eventually switch from growth to profitability.