Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites.Episode notes:<a href="https://www.akamai.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Akamai</a> is a CDN, full-stack cloud computing, and cybersecurity company that keeps experiences closer to users and threats further away using the world’s most distributed compute platform.&nbsp;Connect with Robert on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-lester-4a50321a7/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and check out his <a href="https://www.akamai.com/blog?author=robert-lester" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI Pulse blogs</a>.Today’s shoutout goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/643905/evan-phoenix" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Evan Phoenix</a> for winning a Populist badge for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180914/llvm-ir-back-to-human-readable-source-language" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">llvm ir back to human-readable source language?</a>.<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/06/search-engine-bots-crawled-so-ai-bots-could-run" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TRANSCRIPT</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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