Samir Tout, Ph.D.

Samir Tout, Ph.D.

GEO Stellar Founder, avid volleyball(er)

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Is traditional Technical SEO dead, or just evolving into "Agentic UX"?

I've been researching how autonomous agents (Claude, Google Jarvis) traverse websites, and I'm noticing a massive gap. Sites that score 100 on Google Lighthouse are literally crashing AI agents because of DOM bloat and missing ARIA semantics.

We just launched a tool today to physically measure this "Agentic Friction," but I'm curious what the community thinks: Should front-end devs be designing for human UI, or should they be stripping down their DOMs so AI agents can actually read and cite them? Where is the balance?

Is traditional SEO officially a waste of time for early-stage startups?

I ve been analyzing top agency and SaaS websites over the last few months, and the data is pretty staggering. Traditional SEO (optimizing for Google's passive crawler, building backlinks, keyword stuffing) feels completely disconnected from how users are actually finding software now through generative engines.

We noticed that sites ranking #1 on traditional Google are often completely ignored by agents like OpenAI Operator or Claude because of "Agentic Friction" (heavy DOM bloat, lack of semantic tags, missing JSON-LD).

For founders launching today: Are you still investing in traditional SEO, or have you completely shifted your strategy to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

(P.S. We just launched GEO Stellar today to actually measure this friction would love to know what frameworks you're all using to stay visible to AI!)

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Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Leary

11d ago

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Redditp/redditRohan Chaubey

18d ago

If Reddit required face scans to prove you’re human… would you still use it?

With AI bots getting harder to detect, there s been growing discussion around platforms using biometric verification (like face scans) to confirm real users.

Cool in theory... Reddit is full of bots, fake accounts and garbage engagement. But let s be real

Reddit without anonymity isn t Reddit.