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Designing for Machines That Read

Half your traffic is now an LLM agent skimming your page on behalf of a human. Your design system was not built for this.

CMCassia Moreno·April 9, 2026·8 min read

We spent twenty years optimizing pages for human eyes and search crawlers. A third audience has quietly become dominant: agents acting on behalf of users.

They do not care about your hero animation. They care about whether your pricing is in the DOM or behind a click.

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