Tinyfish founder on web agents: sites will go agent-friendly, subscriptions don't fit
Saboo_Shubham_ · x · 2026-11-02
Key takeaways from a conversation with Tinyfish founder Shuhao on the future of web agents:
- Agents are becoming the web's primary users; sites that block them today will turn agent-friendly — even agent-certified — to win that traffic.
- Human-in-the-loop is a transition phase: headless agents will handle login, pricing and multi-step execution across services on their own, with humans stepping in only for novel or risky cases.
- Subscriptions don't fit agents; Tinyfish uses a prepaid wallet so each agent task is a micro-transaction.
- Trust is the biggest competition: credentials stay in a vault the model never sees, and a separate safeguard model reviews every action for risk before execution.
- Shuhao runs 12 parallel Claude Code sessions as a founder.
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