No Hacks with Slobodan Manic: Honest Verdicts on the Agentic Web
No Hacks with Slobodan Manic is a weekly show about the agentic web: what happens when the visitors reading, citing, and buying from your website aren't human. Each episode is a 15 to 20 minute verdict on the week: what got built, who paid for it, whether anyone is actually using it, and whether it's worth your attention and money yet. Most weeks that is Sani on his own, with occasional guests who built the thing worth asking about. No clickbait, no vendor talking points, a practitioner who checks the primary source and tells you plainly. Host Slobodan Manic is a CXL-certified conversion specialist, WordPress Core Contributor, and the creator of Machine-First Architecture.
No Hacks with Slobodan Manic: Honest Verdicts on the Agentic Web
Latest Episodes
230: A Shoe Company And A Cookie Company Now Say The Exact Same Thing To AI Agents
On August 5 Shopify switched on a second way into every store on its platform, built for AI agents instead of people. Nothing to install, no merchant asked. I opened three unrelated stores, Allbirds, Brooklinen and Partake Foods, and asked each...
229: Does llms.txt Work? What 137,000 Domains' Server Logs Show
Most of what's sold as AI search optimization has never been tested by the people selling it, and this episode is me checking the biggest one against server logs. Ahrefs looked at 137,000 domains in June: 97% of llms.txt files got zero requests...
228: OpenAI Killed Its AI Browser
I came back from a month off the grid to find OpenAI had killed Atlas, its most glamorously launched product, nine months after the keynote. It barely matters, though. The automated, non-human visitor Atlas was sending to your website is still ...
227: ChatGPT Shopping Is Scraped Google Shopping with Malte Landwehr, CMO/CPO at Peec AI
I sat down with Malte Landwehr, who left VP of SEO at Idealo to become CPO and CMO at Peec AI, the platform that tracks what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews actually cite. We open on the strangest finding of the year. GummySear...
226: Most Brands Are Chasing AI Visibility Backwards with Alisa Scharf, Chief AI Officer at Seer Interactive
This week I welcome Alisa Scharf, Chief AI Officer at Seer Interactive, to the podcast, to ask the question she fires back at every client who walks in wanting to "win at AI visibility." Her answer flips the whole project: fix what the models g...
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