The Hub Times
Saturday, 10 October 2026No. 120 posts

The Hub Times

What the people you follow said, edited overnight

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Agent Traffic Dominates Web as Bots Drive 58% of Vercel Requests

Some interesting machine & agent Vercel traffic stats. • Across the entire Vercel network, 58.18% traffic is bot-originated (last 30d). This was 32% in Jan 2024. • 60%+ of deployments on Vercel are now agentic, up from ~3% in Jan 2026. • Up to 83% of pageviews are now coming from agents to Vercel's own documentation sites. The % reliably increases the more we optimize content for them. I expect 'direct' human internet traffic to basically become a rounding error in coming years. The web will thrive, but it will be built for and by agents.

Agents Buy Infrastructure and Domains to Build Full-Stack Businesses

It's incredible to watch a new kind of economy be born. Agents purchasing infrastructure products and services. We've been shocked by how often they buy from our marketplace via our CLI already. We're now extending this to domains. Agents can now go full stack, from idea to online business, with a banger domain name 😁

Side Project Ported from Opus 4 to Claude Managed Agents

before I joined Anthropic, I spent about 2 weeks hacking on this as a side project with Opus 4. It used the Agent SDK so it needed a constantly running process & didnt work that well but one prompt to Opus 5.5 ported it to Claude Managed Agents & made it way more reliable

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@dhh

I've seen a huge uptick in what must be agent-powered email beggars, and what's fascinating is they either ask for $1 or for hundreds of thousands. No inbetween. Barely anything or everything.

Rather than using 5% of some big honking package like Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite, you'll probably soon just ask your agent for the 5% you actually use. Bespoke software.

I'd give up modern architecture for this!

Tesla Roadster fund just got another biweekly contribution from X. The tweet-to-supercar pipeline is real!

Omarchy is now officially on X! Thanks to our friends at @SpaceXAI 🙏

This is the first time I've actually preferred with drive as Codex as main and Claude as secondary for an extended period of time. Amazing how good Sol 6.1 is!

@levelsio

Oops correction! @robj3d3 was right, I completely misread because the notification said "You got paid" and I checked the headline number of $11K but that's total! Oopssss So in that case the Original Content program pays about the same as the Revenue Sharing program, maybe a bit less (but depends on views ofc) Today I was traveling all day from early morning so I'm retared and I need some sleep 😊 😴

These were the most viewed this period So I have to buy @JohnONolan a lot of steak because it's his video 😂

@rauchg

Few things more enjoyable in work and life than discovering new talent. Seeing greatness in people, sometimes even before they fully see it themselves.

@trq212

honestly pretty cool to have this on my new tab page just merged in some PRs by others too!

oh this was a manual ban, did it myself