David Mytton
Founder & CEO, Arcjet. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David Mytton is the founder and CEO of Arcjet, an application security platform providing developers with in-code defenses against malicious bots and AI prompt injection. He previously founded Server Density, co-founded Console, and researches sustainable computing at the University of Oxford.
1shows
1appearances
14statements
5resolved
3supported
0contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything David Mytton said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mytton: 50% of Current Internet Traffic Comes From Automated Bots
“50% of traffic is already bots, it's already automated”
Mytton: Web Traffic From Autonomous AI Agents Will Explode
“We're going to see an explosion in the traffic that's coming from these tools”
Mytton: Blanket Blocking of AI Traffic Is the Wrong Security Strategy
“Just blocking them just because they're AI is the wrong answer.”
Mytton: E-commerce sites should flag suspicious transactions, not block them
“If you're running an e-commerce operation, an online store, the worst thing you can do is block a transaction because then you've lost the revenue. Usually you want to then flag that order for review.”
Mytton: DDoS protection has become a commodity handled by cloud providers
“The DDoS problem is still there, but it's just almost handled as a commodity these days. The network provider, your cloud provider, They'll just deal with it. And so when you're deploying an application, most of the time you just don't have to think about it.”
Mytton: Non-DDoS web security requires application-level context
“So a volumetric DDoS attack, you just want to block that at the network. You never want to see that traffic, but everything else needs the context of the application.”
Mytton: Newer bots use robots.txt to target restricted site areas
“And, but there are newer bots that are ignoring it or even sometimes using it as a way to find the parts of your site that you don't want it to access. And they will just do that anyway.”
Mytton: Websites in AI search indexes gain more traffic and signups
“As we were seeing, sites are getting more signups, they're getting more traffic.”
Mytton: Residential IP Proxies Render Basic ISP Blocks Ineffective
“And then you have the compounding factor of the abusers will purchase access to proxies which run on residential IP addresses. So you can't easily rely on the fact that it's part of a home ISP block anymore.”
Mytton: AI crawlers will increasingly adhere to web rules within 18 months
“And so over the next 18 months, I think we'll see more of that, more of the AI crawlers that we want, following the rules, doing things in the right way. And it will start to split into making it a lot easier to detect the bots with criminal intent, and those …”
Mytton: Low-memory edge AI models will be deployed within years
“We're already seeing new edge models designed to be deployed to mobile devices and IOT that use very low amounts of system memory and can provide inference responses within milliseconds. I think those are going to start to be deployed to applications over the …”
Mytton: Edge inference can filter click spam before ad auctions occur
“Super fast inference on the edge coming into a decision and for advertisers stopping click spam, that's a huge problem and being able to come to that decision before it even goes through your ad model and the auction system.”
Mytton: OpenAI operates four to five distinct bot types
“Particularly with AI coming in where something like OpenAI has four or five different types of bots, and some of them you might want to make a more restrictive decision over, but then others are going to be taking actions on behalf of a user search.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Arcjet | 1 | 14 | 60% 3/5 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |