What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

Via Kottke , a story of what happens when bots + LLMs + coding agents + prediction markets collide with plain old fashioned websites. The open web was built on assumptions such as that visitors are mostly human, that traffic roughly tracks readership, and that the cost of serving your site is related to the value you get from serving it. Every one of those assumptions is now out of date. … A…