Google Reader died in 2013 and everyone called it. But RSS never stopped powering podcasting, and now AI agents need exactly what RSS does.RSS was declared dead in 2013 when Google shut down Reader. The eulogies were premature and wrong about the cause. RSS never stopped working. It stopped being the primary way humans discovered content, because social algorithms offered something RSS could not: the addictive randomness of a variable reward schedule. Humans find that irresistible. Agents do not...