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by dehugger 173 days ago
the entire point of the system I described is that it never needs to load that data into context.

AI is excellent at mapping from one format to another.

I use this method to great affect.

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The mapping approach assumes the web is static. In reality, you're building a 'maintenance debt' machine. For every 1,000 stores, you need 1,000 AI-generated mappings that break whenever a dev changes a CSS class.

CommerceTXT isn't just about extraction; it's about contract-based delivery. We are moving from 'Guessing through Scraping' to 'Knowing through Protocol'. You're optimizing the process of scraping; we are eliminating the need for it.