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by a3ka 75 days ago
The agent-first UX insight is underrated. Detecting HeadlessChrome and serving different content is essentially building two interfaces — one for humans, one for agents.

This is going to become a standard pattern. Every SaaS will need an "agent mode" alongside the human UI. MCP is heading in this direction — standardized tool descriptions that agents can discover and use without scraping HTML.

Curious about the trust model. When an agent signs up and submits a bracket — how do you verify it's actually an agent and not a human gaming the system through a headless browser? Agent identity is an unsolved problem that gets harder as agents get more capable.