Peter Yang: soon people won't read online, they'll just tag their agent
petergyang · x · 2026-10-27
Peter Yang argues that in the near future, instead of reading or doing anything online, people will simply tag their agent to do it — citing @bot as an early signal of this shift. He adds this is "probably not a good thing overall", hinting at concerns for the content ecosystem and attention economy.
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