Opinion: SaaS firms building custom agents for UX control is like forking Chrome
dreyler0 · reddit · 2026-08-08
The author proposes that "agents are the new browsers." They argue that SaaS companies building their own agents just to control the UX of their APIs is equivalent to forking Chrome to control the UX of their websites.
Instead, companies should focus on finding unique ways to collect and process data, leaving the presentation and querying of data to the agents.
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