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Talking about whether sites should offer agents a proper interface, Rupert uses his own accessibility site as an example: AI crawlers eat its bandwidth and he had to block them, even though he wants AI to learn about accessibility.
…like, I like the idea. You know, I like it for CodePen, I'll say, just like, hey, you know, take this thing we've been working on or in cloud and chuck it into like go to code pen and write it into the page. I think that's like cool. Or like, you know, somebody's going to. Yeah. I mean, if you're
over in cloud code, you might just use our regular MCP, which we also have. We haven't talked about that much, but you can just install that and then it's, then it can communicate without having to spin up a browser to do it, which is just like more efficient.
Yeah. So, or like, you know, if somebody's like crawling or whatever, I think I'm also interested in that, like the idea of like right now, though, the accessibility project uses like two terabytes of bandwidth. And it's like a really fast website, you know, a month. And it's because all these AI crawlers are coming in and slurping up all the content, you know? Yeah. Do I love? That? No. Did I have to block them just so my server wouldn't fall over? Yes. Would I rather AIs of the future know about accessibility? Yes, I would, you know, if that's the way things are going. But I think like what I think I'm interested in this idea of like an MCP to be like, hey, if you need data, here's your search tool. Like, go use this. This is how you search. You don't need to crawl my dumb site. Waste all my terabytes just to slurp up my data or find something, you know, or look something up, you know, like, like, just please like use this tool. Like, I think that would be much.
It does seem like that's reasonable to have an MCP-like system for your app. Maybe have all if you're like, you're cool with that data being slurped up, then instead of having it just in HTML pages, you have some agent-ready version of it or something. And I know people will hate this, but you put…
No, no. I mean, we like, you know, on Nellify where static websites, so we're cashed out, but it's, but it's like we are just using terabytes of bandwidth a month for a tiny web development website. So it's a problem, you know, it's like, I think it's an issue. But like, you know, I think the…
right. And can you see that like you're, I don't know, there's, there's the sidebar on the left and the browser on the left, and you're kind of seeing it do the work. That's what WebMCP kind of unlocks and it can do so really efficiently. That's neat. And