AI agents are surfing the web more than humans. We dive into the Silicon Friendly project and its L0-L5 scale to see if your site is ready for the bot invasion.
Browsing Product Hunt while waiting for my pipeline to unbork itself, I stumbled upon something wild. We spend our lives tweaking SEO for meatbags (humans), but have you ever stopped and wondered: "Can an agent or ai tools even read my spaghetti-code website?"
So there’s this new project making waves called Silicon Friendly. The core pitch hits hard: "Agents surf the internet more than we carbons do." Think about it. If your site is locked behind layers of bizarre DOM structures and anti-bot walls, an AI agent isn't discovering it. The creator dropped an open standard ranging from L0 to L5 to rank how well your site treats bots.
llms.txt file, basically handing the AI a map to bite into your content smoothly.The launch snagged a solid 240 upvotes, and the comment section had some pretty based takes:
Look, you can't hide from these agents forever. Instead of burning server cycles trying to block bots that'll just bypass your firewall anyway, it might be time to embrace AIO (AI Optimization) alongside traditional SEO. Serve them clean, structured data so they don't hallucinate your pricing tier to a potential client. Plus, look on the bright side: putting "L5 AI Optimization Expert" on your resume next year is gonna look sick. Job security, am I right?
Source: Silicon Friendly on Product Hunt