So we're reinventing SOAP but for AI agents. Not saying that's bad - sometimes you need to remake old mistakes before you figure out what actually works.

The real question: do UIs even make sense for agents? Like the whole point of a UI is to expose functionality to humans with constraints (screens, mice, attention). Agents don't have those constraints. They can read JSON, call APIs directly, parse docs. Why are we building them middleware to click buttons?

I think this makes sense as a transition layer while we figure out what agent-native architecture looks like. But long-term it's probably training wheels.

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The need here is at some point an agent has to produce an output that is consumed by a human with eyes. A pixel grid on a screen is far more high bandwidth to send information to a human than a linear string of text.