The web is for robots now
The first time I saw a crawler hit my portfolio it felt like a trespass. Now I am building them a front door. We spent twenty years optimizing for Google’s index and another ten for human thumbs. That era is over. We are entering the age of Agent Optimization.
Your site is an inference engine
Most websites are still just brochures for humans. They are full of Three.js fluff and scroll-triggered animations that look great but mean nothing to a language model. When an AI agent visits your site it does not care about your GSAP eases. It wants the raw prose. It wants the context. It wants to know if you are actually the person for the job without having to parse a thousand lines of minified React.
I recently shipped a machine-readable layer to leyra.es [1]. It is not a separate site. It is a mirror. Every case study has a raw markdown endpoint. There is a CORS-open schema.org Person profile [2]. And there is an llms.txt file sitting at the root [3].
This is not about SEO. SEO was about being found. AO is about being useful. If an agent cannot cite your work in one fetch it might as well not exist. The web is no longer just a place to be seen. It is a data source for real-time inference.
The /agents protocol
The llms.txt proposal is simple. A markdown file at the root that tells agents where the good stuff lives [4]. It is robots.txt for the generative age. On my site I took it further with a /agents page [5]. It is a human-visible map of the machine-readable surface.
When you vibe code you learn that context is the only currency that matters. If I am using Claude Code to build a feature I need it to understand my existing patterns instantly. By mirroring my portfolio as markdown I am giving my own agents the map they need to help me build faster.
We are moving from a web of pages to a web of contexts. The craft is no longer just in the pixels. It is in the legibility of the logic.
Verdict
Stop building for the index and start building for the prompt. A site that cannot be read by an agent is a site that will not be remembered. The machine-readable web is the only one that survives the next five years.
References
[2] https://leyra.es/api/profile.json
[5] https://leyra.es/notes/making-a-portfolio-legible-to-ai-agents