I understand why they might be tempted to do this customer hostile action. For our own business, ChatGPT’s sales have grown to be 6.3%[1] of total, but our basket size is smaller compared to other channels.

I think this is because people are purchasing only what they need as recommended by their AI and nothing extra. This is a better outcome for the customer.

OpenAI is really eating Google's lunch hard[2]!

1. http://files.schappi.com/pb-JjWzp83d2O.png

2. http://files.schappi.com/pb-2BtxkLaITY.png

I think it may be worthwhile to not compare basket sizes but maybe revenue over time? Would be interesting to see if the same agents (maybe bound to the same user or same project) now default or bias towards your storefront in the future, or if they always go out and do a search for "best deal".

There are so many people who have their identities wrapped in that forum… just look at their post signature blocks.

Didn't gmail already roll the same thing out in 2024?

We use Alpine quite a bit so I built our team ssh-audit[1]. Feel free to use it if you want.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383006

Those customers wanted a Cybertruck

My kid (with a little help from Claude) ended up creating his own social network just to get around the bans. The name of his network makes his opinion of the bans pretty clear. For his birthday, all he wanted was his domain name and and "merch pens" printed with the domain on it. I suppose I'm proud!

1. https://idiocy.schappistudios.com

Have you done a blog or YouTube about this ?

It is all custom made and not very reproducible. I'm working on reproducible setup and once it is done will publish it here: https://blog.kvit.app

I'll be looking forward to reading about it. I just got and set up an Echo Show for the same purpose.

Old accounts can suffer takeovers too!

> "frequently contains all too plausible nonsense"

This really isn’t the case with frontier models in 2026.

I’ve found (sadly) that every time I thought the model was hallucinating, I was in fact the one who was mistaken.

I am prepared to admit that the model usually doesn't get things outright incorrect (unless you ask it to count letters). But the solution does contain a lot of nonsense. Not false nonsense, but meaningless or irrelevant sentences that make understanding the core of the fix much more difficult.

N=1, and biased towards the type of questions asked. N+1, If I use one of the search engine sloptools I get frequent inaccurate answers which is I guess what the majority of people do.

Sure, your frontier model in 2026 will know in the team who is responsible for what part of the tech stack.

No?

Then, in the document where it writes who has to do what change, it is hallucinating. And this time you or me are not the ones who are mistaken.

It is not just Amazon (although they're #4 on my list of bad actors)[1].

1. https://files.littlebird.com.au/bad-scrapers.png

Yeah it's not just Amazon, but so far Amazon was the only one specifically looking for URLs in source code. Interestingly it ignored URLs in the fake markdown docs.

Another detail: the scraper did not attempt to access the endpoints immediately (as it did for hrefs in htmls) but it did it on the day after, twice.

Was it actually an Amazon bot IP[1] or someone pretending to be on AWS?

1. https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresse...

Yup, already mentioned in a comment below: the IPs are in that list.

They also show up in AbuseIPDB with multiple reports.

Perhaps you need a TOS that requires a usage fee be mailed to a PO Box that has a reasonable "free" limit of like 100$ and when they exceed it, you automatically mail them a copy of the TOS, the logs and an invoice.

Just make sure you have a good lawyer.

is there a law they’re breaking?

because idk i could be wrong but some small project vs a 2.5T market cap company is gonna need more than “a good lawyer”