Resend has disabled bot detection on its login flow after CEO Zeno Rocha discovered his own OpenClaw agent couldn't access the platform. Rocha posted on X: "I was chatting with my OpenClaw agent, and it wasn't able to log in to Resend. So, we disabled bot detection from the login flow." OpenClaw agents can now write, send, and manage emails through Resend without hitting automated defenses.
The move reflects a broader shift. CAPTCHAs and bot detection were designed for a world where automated traffic meant spam and credential stuffing. When the bot is a paying customer's AI assistant sending legitimate email, those defenses become barriers to business.
Resend isn't alone. LNVPS accepts Lightning payments without identity verification. PPQ.ai just confirmed the first autonomous agent purchase of API credits. Coinbase launched agentic wallets and the x402 payment protocol. Each accommodation signals the same thing: the next power user might not be human.
The irony is that OpenClaw's browser automation is already capable of clicking "I'm not a robot" buttons. The bots learned to lie. Now services are learning to stop asking.
No press conference, no product launch — just a CEO tweet and a flipped toggle. That's how the agentic internet gets built: one login flow at a time, one CAPTCHA removed at a time, one company realizing the bot at the door is a customer.