Agent-based computing is outgrowing the web as we know it

We are in the cat of the main re-design of the Internet. Not a facelift. Full body transplant.

For more than 30 years, the Internet is the throne of our workplace, work, high street and therapist. But this is also designed for simple people for us Type, tap, tap and scroll. Interfaces built for eyes. Navigation designed for fingers. The decision was dressed as websites.

But Here’s the truth: The initial users of the Internet will not be longer.

AI agents based on Chatgpt, Copilot, Claude and Twins, move from passive assistants to active participants. We ask them to do anything today for us. Tomorrow, we will take actions like us.

Currently, we ask Ferraris to drive in a stone rifle.

AI is already trying to operate in a world in a human form. CLICK THE BUTTONS. Drag the cursors. To fill out the forms. It is like to put a robot in a glove and tell them to pretend to be your fingers. It works now, but wildness is ineffective.

Remember when the fathers appear in the horsepieces for the first time? Well, I don’t, but I know the story. This was hardly working. Up to the contractual request of someone who performs the speed. The same logic belongs to the Internet. AI agents are not just going to be a digital driver. They will be driving, deciding and operating. Fast. From us in the loop.

We need a new internet.

AI agents require machine-native design

What does It looks like a web When built for machines?

Is fast. Invisible. Transactional. The pages are the end points. The interfaces are resolved. There are no “click” buttons. The intention of flowing between simply built data, unstructured context, exposed opportunities and systems.

APIS will become new stores. AI does not need to read a product page or carrying a study carousel. One question is: “Is this the best choice based on my user’s advantages, budget and priorities?” And answers this answer immediately.

The entire architect of the Internet will be bent in the AI-local interfaces. Faster protocols. Clean metadata. Checkable resources. Trust is converted into currency, because EU cannot trust the vibes. Agents will evaluate the reliability of the source, the cross-checking facts and learn from user results. Penitation, structure and check signals are more important than design.

And suddenly the “user experience” takes a different meaning. You don’t design for a focused shopper. You make a synthetic brain with zero tolerance for open and friction on endless marks.

Two products, a future

So what happens next?

We can finish two parallels outside. One for visual, convincing, slow remaining people. For machines that are minimal, efficient, fast.

But it is probably more layered. Each digital surface will need a machine-read skin. Your website, content, your trade, if optimized Autonomous agentsIt is invisible.

This changes everything:

• SEO Meo becomes: Optimization of machine experience.
• Content information.
• Brand trust is more measured and transparent.
• Over effective design, switch from changes to the delay in layout.

Efficiency and reliable main website are differentiator. Brands that embrace this turn, just to build aI-ready front doors to develop pretty pages early. . They will treat the AI ​​compliance with mobile optimization or safety.

Because in five years, “Buy Now” will not be clicked. You will have a moving AI agent in your day, hundreds of decisions per day – do not purchase, but meetings are in talks, travel, selection content and negotiations throughout each area of ​​digital life.

And the best site will choose, the fastest, reliable and reliable, the most car reads will choose one.

Bottom line

We will not only update the browsers. We rewrite the Internet rules.

Old internet built for people. Will be a new one Built for agents. The companies that recognize this and build the infrastructure, content and interfaces, will most likely have the future.

Just like advanced roads for cars, the Internet will develop for AI.

And the next digital revolution? Machines will be performed by machines designed for machines, for machines, (and very possible).

Justin Westcott leads the global technology sector Sketch.