Cloudflare CEO: Bots Have Now Passed Human Traffic Online, Driven by Agentic Activity
Tom's Hardware / Hacker News·medium signal
Tom's Hardware reports Cloudflare's CEO stating that automated bot traffic has overtaken human traffic on the web, with agentic AI traffic eclipsing real people roughly a year earlier than expected. The milestone reframes web infrastructure, rate-limiting, and bot-management assumptions for every site operator. It's a structural signal that the open web is increasingly machine-to-machine.