The Internet Isn't Ready for Agents. Neither Is Your Business Model.

The article discusses how the current web infrastructure, designed around human users, is not ready to handle AI agents that can perform tasks at scale. This mismatch creates issues with identity verification and pricing models, leading to problems in the hiring industry.

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The article explains how the current web infrastructure, designed around human users, is not ready to handle AI agents that can perform tasks at scale. The author tried building an AI tool to help with job applications, but found that half the job boards blocked it outright, while the other half demanded human verification methods like CAPTCHAs and SMS codes. This mismatch between agent-based capabilities and human-centric web architecture creates issues with identity verification and pricing models. In the hiring industry, the entire workflow is designed around human attention as the bottleneck, but when agents enter this workflow, two key things need to work from the ground up: verifiable identity for recruiting agents, and pricing models that account for agent-based usage patterns that don't fit human-centric subscription plans. The article argues that the current workarounds, like auto-apply tools, have made the hiring process worse, with AI-generated resumes overwhelming recruiters, and that the root cause is the underlying infrastructure not being ready for agents.