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Forcing People to Prove They Are Robots When You Are All In On AI

calendar_today September 7, 2026 domain programmableweb

There are a number of contradictions that grind my gears in today’s market. I recently wrote about enterprises pushing teams to reduce their cloud spend while simultaneously tokenmaxxing when it comes to AI. Another thing I am seeing from companies that confounds me is the declaration that they are all in on agentic AI, while requiring me to prove I am not a bot when signing up to use their API.

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