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Star Wars cantina scene
Coverage of Star Wars cantina scene in the Nexus archive.
- The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web
The article discusses how bots now generate more internet traffic than humans, but websites remain unadapted to accommodate both human and agentic visitors. The author describes their experience with Anthropic's Fable subagents attempting to access sites like archive.org, highlighting how agents circumvent website blocks. The comparison to the Star Wars cantina scene illustrates the exclusion of non-human visitors and the economic tension between publishers and agents.