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Insights on AI agents, browser infrastructure, anti-bot evasion, and the future of web automation.
Why Residential Proxies Are Not Enough (And What Akamai Actually Checks)
A clean IP address is just the first gate. Modern anti-bot systems like Akamai Bot Manager correlate a dozen independent signals - TLS fingerprints, sensor cookies, header order, behavioral patterns - to block you even with a residential proxy.
AI Scraping Tools vs Scraping with AI Bolted On
Most AI scraping tools still fetch pages the traditional way and pipe HTML to an LLM afterward. That works for clean sites and falls apart on anything with real anti-bot protection. Here's what we learned building production scrapers with and without AI.
Why Browser Automation is Broken - and How AI Agents Change Everything
The web was built for humans, not bots. Every layer of modern browser automation fights an uphill battle against anti-bot systems, CAPTCHAs, and infrastructure decay. Here's why the current approach is fundamentally broken.