It took off and https://catstxt.org/ was born.

On the contrary, llms.txt is often ignored by the crawlers.

The trap is this: getting baited into treating a set of observations as evidence, when the observations would occur whether or not the underlying thing were true. It is the intellectual equivalent of concluding your umbrella causes the rain to stop, because every time you put it away the rain does eventually stop.

It's a convenient example: . The same broken chain of inference is being applied to almost every new GEO tactic invented on a monthly basis

When you ask a model whether llms.txt helps, it is not reasoning. It is not running an experiment, consulting a source or weighing evidence. It is returning the most common thing it has seen written on the subject. The web is thick with confident posts declaring llms.txt the future, so the model converges on that consensus and reflects it back, dressed as a considered opinion. It endorsed my cats for precisely the same reason: by the time anyone asked, enough people had written enthusiastically about cats.txt that the average of the discourse said “yes.”

Quite the opposite of GEO: " That is what the “O” in SEO is meant to stand for. Optimisation is the cumulative advantage of doing the small, verifiable things a little better than your competitors, over and over, until it adds up."