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Ash Ashutosh from Pinecone describes why agentic traffic surpassing human traffic was never a surprise: "Wherever there were humans, they've been now completely subsumed by agents that they've gone off and asked to go perform tasks for them." "We suddenly have this entire data infrastructure underlying even the APIs... show more

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