I finally fixed my blog's RSS feed so it shows the full content instead of just the title and a link.
That sent me down a rabbit hole reading about the history of feed formats—RSS, Atom, and how we got here. At their core, these formats were designed to make content easy to read and parse for machines.
Wait, it sounds familiar? Yep LLMs.
As AI continues to grow, we'll probably need something similar: a clean, predictable format that LLMs can easily understand. There's already an effort around making llms.txt a standard.
But hey, the modern web isn't just hard for LLMs. Between SPAs, trackers, cookie banners, autoplay videos, permission requests and that one weird floating chat icon that blocks the text—maybe we humans need help too.
Can we have humans.txt please? A sane simple clean readable format for us humans.
I am happy LLMs are pushing us to make web back to old days of simple HTML. Because just like baggy jeans, everything good eventually comes back in style.