The Missing Layer in Agentic AI — Giedrius Šteimantas, Oxylabs

Giedrius Šteimantas discusses the often-overlooked infrastructural layer for AI agents operating on the open web. He highlights how traditional browser automation leads to high costs and unreliability, particularly due to CAPTCHAs and invalid content. Drawing from ten years of web scraping experience at Oxylabs, he presents a multi-stage solution that prioritizes cost-efficiency and content validation, using specialized APIs and hardened headless browsers only when absolutely necessary, thus significantly reducing token waste and improving agent performance.