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A scalper sends 10,000 fake visitors and tries to hide them in the crowd. An AI agent shopping for someone usually sends 1. That difference tells you more than any single request does. 🧐

Andy Still, CTO and Co-Founder of Netacea, talking with Jose Quaresma on the Smooth Scaling Podcast. Listen to Smooth Scaling wherever you get your podcasts or at youtu.be/AWZP51h62c4

Some bot software now comes with support agreements, regular updates & Trustpilot reviews. Launching an attack increasingly looks more like buying SaaS than writing code.

“Ultimately, it’s still a performance problem.” Netacea's Andy Still joins Smooth Scaling to talk about bot traffic, AI agents, & the growing challenge of telling good automation from bad. 🤖 🎧 Listen to the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=AWZP51h6…

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Six months in, they tore it up and started over. 🔨 Most teams would've doubled down. Instead, the TSAI team made a breaking change and rebuilt their protocol after industry adoption shifted faster than expected. Alexander Günsche explains why on the Smooth Scaling Podcast.

Alexander Günsche, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and lead of the TSAI protocol, explains why agent traffic needs more nuance than a binary decision. Watch the episode: youtube.com/watch?v=vfAEzX05…

Not every AI agent deserves a yes. Not every AI agent deserves a no. The future is everything in between. ⚖️ Lower limits. Higher trust. Graduated access. That's a better model than block or allow.

In this clip from the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Alexander Günsche (AWS, TSAI) starts with an unusual pizza order and ends up unpacking a bigger challenge in digital commerce. 🍕 Knowing who someone is and knowing whether to trust them are two different problems.