Yutori's Batra: most of the web will never get agent APIs — pixels in, clicks out

DhruvBatra_ · x · 2026-08-27

On the Chain of Thought podcast, Yutori founder Dhruv Batra laid out his computer-use agent thesis:

Most of the web will never expose APIs for agents — the long tail of school, government, and e-commerce sites was built for humans; agents should operate the human web like self-driving cars share roads with people.
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