The 'agent web' is coming — where AI agents talk directly to each other instead of scraping websites
Summary
The article discusses the future of AI agents communicating directly with each other via APIs and protocols like MCP, bypassing human-oriented web interfaces, and the author asks the community about adoption timelines and use cases.
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