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You use API tokens for things intended to be machine to machine communication and captchas for things intended to be filled out by humans. Not every site or ser
by wildzzz 4mo ago
You use API tokens for things intended to be machine to machine communication and captchas for things intended to be filled out by humans. Not every site or service wants automated input, even if it's being directed by a human. I dont want forums like HN just filled with a bunch of agents talking to eachother, where's the human connection?
- hombre_fatal 4mo agoCaptchas are dead or will be dead shortly. The question is what do you do in a world where you can't tell human from machine, or when there's now honest machine traffic that acts on behalf of honest users. > You use API tokens for things intended to be machine to machine communication Who uses it and why? Not for websites where the agent is making read-only web requests for the user. And now that agents have generalized abilities/intelligence, there's fewer and fewer incentives to use APIs since the arms race to keep humans and machines segregated is ended/ending. We need new ideas and paradigms, not cling on to old ones that won't work.