No Hacks

HOW AI IS CHANGING THE INTERNET: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE POINTLESS

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.

Nobody asked us if we wanted it changed. So every week I check what's actually happening, and what to do about it.

Most of it comes down to what happens when AI acts for your customers: how it finds, chooses and buys from a business, on your website and everywhere else.

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Episode 23530 min

Your Website Is Your Source Of Truth, Not Your Traffic Source with Amanda Natividad, Co-Author of Zero Click Marketing

What is a business website for now that people shop through ChatGPT?

According to Amanda Natividad, it is your source of truth: the one channel you fully own, the record AI tools crawl and everything else points to.

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  • Meta Paused Its New Business Terms, And Businesses Should Plan As If It Never Gets Better

    Meta paused the terms that would have let it crawl the website of every business using Facebook or Instagram, after publishers, a court in Oslo and the UK's competition regulator pushed back. Pushback can work. A business that depends on Meta for customers should still plan as if Meta will never get better for it.

    AI bots and the law

  • Personal AI Agents In 2026: A Complete Reference

    A reference to the personal AI agents that buy, book and call for people in November 2026: seventeen live agents in five kinds and five announced ones. Each entry gives what the agent does, where it works, how it pays, what a website sees and the usage its maker publishes, checked against the company's pages on November 7, 2026.

    Personal AI agents

  • Brave Sells Its Search Index To AI, And Your Website Is Probably In It

    The New York Times is suing Brave, saying it copied more than 30 billion web pages with a crawler nobody could block and sold them to AI companies. Brave's own help page explains why you can't keep it out without keeping Google out, and my website is in that index too.

    AI user agents

  • Businesses Treat Your AI Agent Three Different Ways

    People are starting to send AI agents to shop, book and bank for them. JPMorgan Chase blocks them, Bank of America says whatever an agent does with your login is on you, and Walmart is about to give each agent a separate profile with a spending limit. A business should see both the agent and the customer who sent it.

    Agentic commerce

  • Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent

    Shopify pays the company behind an AI shopping agent a commission on the promoted products it sends shoppers to buy, and stores running Shop Campaigns can now add to it. The extra commission pays only when the shopper buys in Shop, Shopify's app and website, so the agent has a reason to work for its developer and for Shopify as well as the shopper.

    Agentic commerce

  • Three AI Models Shopping Shopify's Catalog Picked Different Products

    I gave three Claude models the same saved list of 20 products from Shopify's catalog, the same instruction and the same shopper's request, almost 2,000 times. They agreed on the top pick in none of six searches. Haiku and Sonnet often picked the product with the most reviews, and Opus called its pick "safe" in 222 of 300.

    Agentic commerce

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