Human Browsers Are the Real Transport Layer
dfinke · x · 2026-07-13
The author jokes that the so-called "agentic AI" often falls short; reality looks more like "**human browsers acting as the transport layer**." They manually click, copy, and paste within web pages, shuttling context back and forth between "UIs designed for humans" and "AIs without direct access." Without APIs or MCP, they are essentially providing free API labor for the AI.
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