Ex-X engineer says agent swarms will flood the web, bot detection is a wide-open market
imdigitalashish · x · 2026-09-23
Responding to X exec @nikitabier, a former X engineer argues bot detection and human verification will become one of businesses' most urgent needs in the coming years: agent swarms will suffocate websites and forms, with small companies and government sites most vulnerable. He says his market research at X found no vendor offering a complete solution, calling it a huge market gap.
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