Scraping Used to Take a Programmer. Now It Takes a Sentence.
I have spent most of my career on the defending side of this problem, and for years I could rely on one comfortable assumption: the number of people capable of scraping my clients' data at scale was small. Not because the defenses were good. Because the work was annoying.
That assumption stopped being true, and I want to be precise about why — because "AI can scrape now" is a headline, not an analysis. The useful version is narrower: each specific technical barrier that used to stop an amateur happens to map onto a task large language models are unusually good at. Knowing which barrier fell where is the entire difference between a defense plan that still works and one that is quietly decorative.
So let's open the hood.
What a Scraper Is Really Doing
Strip away the word "scraping" and you have a small program repeating four steps: request...
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