Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO)
“The 2 hardest things you’ll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.”
― Marc Andreessen
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We hand-picked 3 good pieces of content to inspire and motivate you now and in the future. Keep track of the insights that resonate with you by highlighting them with Glasp💡
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📚 3 Good Recommendations
The Building Block Economy
by Mitchell Hashimoto (5 mins)
Building blocks win over polished apps: Well-documented components (libraries, forkable apps) drive more adoption because AI agents excel at gluing proven pieces together, removing traditional technical barriers.
Maintenance gets easier: Offering building blocks lets you say “no” to feature requests, outsource R&D by watching what others build, and reach niche communities organically.
Mainline apps benefit, not die: Polished applications become more stable and focused thanks to the larger user base and external experimentation happening on top of the building blocks.
Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO)
by Addy Osmani (12 mins)
AI agents read docs differently: They fetch pages in 1-2 requests, skip all client-side analytics, and silently fail when content exceeds their ~100K-200K token context limits.
AEO = SEO for AI agents: Optimize for discoverability, machine-readability, token efficiency, capability signaling, and proper robots.txt access control.
Quick wins: Add
llms.txt(agent-friendly sitemap),skill.md(declares what your API can do), serve clean markdown, and keep pages under ~25K tokens.
Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
by Raj Nandan Sharmas (8 mins)
AI made competent output cheap, so judgment is the new differentiator. The scarce skill is no longer generation—it’s knowing what to reject.
Taste alone isn’t enough. Reducing humans to curators of AI output is a trap; real value comes from building with stakes, not just selecting.
The edge is AI speed plus human specificity. Use AI to clear away the average faster, then add what it can’t: real constraints, domain truths, and a point of view you’ll stand behind.
📣 Community Updates
🟨 Pricing Update:
On May 1, 2026, Glasp will update its pricing for the first time since launch. The Pro Plan will move from $12 to $15/mo, and the Unlimited Plan from $30 to $36/mo. Existing subscribers won’t be affected until their next billing cycle. The Free plan remains unchanged. See full details here.
🟦 New PDF Features:
You can now chat with any uploaded PDF directly inside Glasp, and copy its text as plain text, Markdown, or XML with a single click. Turn dense research papers and reports into conversations — or clean text you can paste anywhere. Try it here 👉 PDF Chat
🟥 Known Issue — YouTube Summary Extension (South Korea):
Some users in South Korea are reporting that the YouTube Summary widget appears in the top-left corner of the video and can't be clicked. We haven't been able to reproduce this on our end, so if you're running into the same issue, please reply to this email with your browser, OS, and region — it'll help us track down the cause. In the meantime, you can use Glasp Reader to summarize YouTube videos instead.
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Best AI Study Apps for Getting Ahead in 2026 on Tool Finder
Highlight & Summarize: PDF Companion on FactCheckTool.com
The Complete Chrome Extension Guide for Better Productivity (2024) on Shu Omi’s YouTube
善用AI工具，幫你秒懂外語影片在說什麼 (Make good use of AI tools to help you understand what foreign language videos are saying in seconds.) on Vista Cheng
Glasp。Chromeの拡張機能でYouTube動画を一瞬で文字起こし。(Glasp. A Chrome extension that instantly transcribes YouTube videos.) on 事業の作り方チャンネル’s YouTube
Top 7 Free AI Tools to Summarize Long Articles Instantly on iTechFever
13 recommended Chrome extensions!【Google Chrome】 on 【ガジェット】みくちゃんねる
50 BEST Chrome Extensions You NEED to Have in 2026! on YouTube
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See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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