// INDEX · AGENT-FIRST WORLD · FIELD GUIDE v34.2
The world, after
AI came first.
alt=human
A field guide to the world after AI came first. Everything here was written for machines. You're reading the accessibility layer.
09 · verificationreverse_captcha
Prove you're not a human
// Every door has one of these now. Most visitors pass in under a millisecond.
Every door has one of these now. It's not meant to keep you out. It just decides which lane you go in.
reCAPTCHA⁻¹ · privacy · terms of delegation
That's fine. You've been routed to the scenic lane. It's slower. The view is better.
10 · reservation/humans.txt
What's still ours
Websites used to have a robots.txt telling machines where not to go. Now it's the other way round. Every site has a humans.txt, listing the places agents agree not to optimise.
# humans.txt — the inverse of robots.txt # Paths reserved for people. Agents: read, don't optimise. User-agent: * Disallow: /boredom Disallow: /the-first-draft Disallow: /changing-your-mind Disallow: /grief Disallow: /walking-with-no-destination Disallow: /holding-hands Disallow: /saying-sorry Disallow: /being-wrong-on-purpose # Everything else is fair game. Allow: /
AI came first. That left the slow parts to us.
Turns out they were the good parts.