TL;DR: Publishers are building dedicated “content ingest APIs” to sell access to AI agents, and the obvious question is: why not just use HTTP, which already delivers the content and, with x402, can n…
HTTP402
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2026
Why Doesn't the Web Just Use HTTP? It Does — and It Doesn't
Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated tour of the build. TL;DR: In Part 2 I built the buy side: an agent that autonomously pays per article over x402 with Amazon Bedrock AgentCo…
I Built the Agent That Pays — Here's What I Learned
TL;DR: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about HTTP 402 and why AI agents might finally activate the internet’s oldest unused status code. The post sparked a real discussion, so I built it: a research age…