The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history,” according to the CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince. “Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,” Prince awkwardly admitted, making his previous expectations of the crossover happening sometime in 2027 seem way off the mark.
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsaJune 3, 2026
