The web just quietly passed a milestone nobody threw a party for. According to Cloudflare’s traffic radar, automated traffic recently crossed the halfway mark, which means more of the internet is now machines than people. Forecasters didn’t expect that line to be crossed until 2027. It happened early.

Sit with that for a second. When you publish something today, the odds are better than even that the first thing to read it isn’t a person. It’s a bot, an agent, a crawler, a model quietly ingesting your words to answer someone else’s question later.