Yuan ./(@yuangao ):The online economy was engineered for humans: scroll, click, track, extract. Attention was the fuel, ads the tax. In the agent era, that entire stack flips. Machines pursue pure intent, size up value in milliseconds, and execute seamless transactions—no feeds, no trackers, no dopamine traps. The ad-industrial complex doesn't adapt. It dissolves. What happens to the internet when value flows faster than attention ever could?

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2026.03.30 09:12

The online economy was engineered for humans: scroll, click, track, extract. Attention was the fuel, ads the tax. In the agent era, that entire stack flips. Machines pursue pure intent, size up value in milliseconds, and execute seamless transactions—no feeds, no trackers, no dopamine traps. The ad-industrial complex doesn't adapt. It dissolves. What happens to the internet when value flows faster than attention ever could?