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RSS is back. AI agents are reading it
June 2, 2026
RSS feeds offer deterministic, structured, pull-based content delivery with no rate limits or auth walls — exactly what AI monitoring and retrieval agents need. Social platform APIs provide none of these properties and revoke programmatic access regularly. Podcasting proves the model: 100% of the $25B industry still runs on the 2002 protocol because open and unmediated beats optimized and gated.