The Web’s Next Great Idea, Or Its Next Spam Magnet

At a recent conference, I was asked if llms.txt mattered. I’m personally not a fan, and we’ll get into why below. I listened to a friend who told me I needed to learn more about it as she believed I didn’t fully understand the proposal, and I have to admit that she was right. After doing a deep dive on it, I now understand it much better. Unfortunately, that only served to crystallize my initial misgivings. And while this may sound like a single person disliking an idea, I’m actually trying to view this from the perspective of the search…