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Author: Slobodan "Sani" Manić

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No Hacks is a weekly podcast and YouTube show, hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manić, on how AI is changing the way people search, choose and buy online.

AI is changing the way people use the internet, and nobody asked us if we wanted it changed. People ask AI instead of searching, let it read the page for them, and more and more, let it choose and buy. So every week I look at one of those changes: an AI that signs into websites with your saved passwords, three AI models that picked three different products for the same shopping request, an AI assistant whose calls to businesses were placed by people in a call center. Then I tell you whether it's good, bad, or pointless, and what it means for the business on the other side. Around fifteen minutes, every Saturday morning, usually me on my own, always with the receipts. Hosted by Slobodan Manić, a CXL-certified conversion specialist, WordPress Core Contributor, and the creator of Machine-First Architecture.

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I talked to Amanda Natividad, the person who named zero-click marketing, the week her book with Rand Fishkin came out, and wanted to ask one question: if nobody clicks any more, what is my website for? Her answer is that it matters more than ever, and in a different way(s). It is your source of truth, the record everything else points to. Along the way she buys clothes from a brand ChatGPT picked, signs up for a tool whose homepage she never saw, and explains why a how-did-you-hear-about-us s...
OpenAI's new agents, dots, are fuzzy balls with eyes that you name and dress. They also sign into websites with your saved passwords and read the email you connect. I went through OpenAI's pages to see what the face is covering. What a dot reads can train the model unless you find the switch, and websites are told nothing. I would not give one my logins or my card. Chapters 00:00 Sam Altman's pitch, and what a dot is01:42 Do you need one?02:36 Where the face came from04:33 Launch day, and why...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agent, Muse, needs to be discreet. The same month, some of the calls it made to businesses were placed by people in a call center. I went through what he told Joanna Stern and Alex Heath about Muse's privacy and security and sorted every claim by tense. What exists today, only Meta has checked. The protection from Meta itself is promised for later this year. My verdict: stay away from this. After the sign-off, the show moves to Saturday mornings. Chapters 00:00 ...
A hundred and seventy-two companies have put their name to A2A, the standard for AI agents at different companies to find each other and talk. I took the web address the project lists next to each name and asked 135 of them the question the standard is built around. Four answered. The reason is not technical: MCP needs one person to say yes, A2A needs two organisations. Chapters 00:00 - AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and four answers00:54 - What I was actually sold, and what I went looking ...
A magazine put a paywall in front of its journalism to stop AI reading it. I tested what that paywall actually checks. It reads one line of your request, the name you type in yourself, and compares it against a list. Say who you are and you get a bill. Make something up and you walk straight in. Then I asked two assistants to read the article anyway. Both got charged, both answered, and neither had read a word of it. It keeps going after the sign-off, about where this podcast is headed. Chap...
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