Web Development

I'm not finding much in the way of user agent strings for the new "AI" browsers (Perplexity Comet, GPT Atlas, Opera Neon, etc). If there's any I'm missing, feel free to add to my list. I'm trying avoid downloading and (shudder) installing any of these just to figure out the UA string they use.

Essentially, I want to deny these browsers use of a few applications I develop (yes, this includes Tesseract).

However, I want to avoid any false positives, so I'm trying to be as specific as I can in the filter.

For now, I'm not bothering with Edge/Chrome despite them now advertising themselves as "AI Browsers"; I'm just denying the ones made directly by the AI companies.

How do browser reading modes determine what is the main page content? They use different approaches and there’s no defined standard.

The first beta of Vite 8, powered by Rolldown, is now available.

Meanwhile, sites are ballooning. The median mobile page is now 2.6 MiB, blowing past the size of DOOM (2.48 MiB) in April. The 75th percentile site is now larger than two copies of DOOM, and P90+ sites are more than 4.5x larger, and sizes at each point have doubled over the past decade. Put another way, the median mobile page is now 70 times larger than the total storage of the computer that landed men on the moon.

I know what I don't want. It's probably biased, and I won't mention anything to avoid a flame war.

All the theme sites I've seen so far only let you specify what you want. But I have a longer list of things that I don't like. And filtering any output by it would shrink any results significantly.

I've been working in web for about a decade. I have no formal education, but I've been in various agencies and in-house teams. I have done some cool stuff but it's limited. I mainly work in wordpress, building custom plugins and themes from scratch for mid size businesses.

I am not technically challenged. The most complex of my work is basically just figuring out client requirements, designing and pitching something that makes their requirements make logical sense, and then building it. The stuff I build is usually no more complex than typical CRUD work.

I don't really know what to do. I'm stuck. I want out of this basic, boring, unfulfilling work. Has anybody managed to make this jump, or similar, and how did it go?