Come To Think of It...

One of the more interesting signals this week is not a shiny new model, but a quieter infrastructure move: Cloudflare is pushing the idea that websites now need to be readable not just by humans and search engines, but by AI agents. Its new Agent Readiness score is basically a report card for whether a site exposes the right clues for machine-driven visitors—things like robots preferences, markdown responses, authentication guidance, and emerging standards for machine-readable access. Cloudflare’s own numbers are the useful part here: across 200,000 popular domains, only 4% had declared AI usage preferences via Content Signals, about 3.9% supported markdown negotiation, and some newer standards barely registered at all. That is a polite way of saying the so-called agentic web is still mostly held together with wishful thinking, vibes, and whatever random HTML a bot feels like chewing on. What makes this worth watching is the practical follow-through. Cloudflare also rolled out Redirec...