> - either evolve our UI systems for computers and let them operate efficiently, i.e. converting everything to API calls . Frontier labs are pushing for this, starting with the Chrome plugin that Claude Cowork mandates.

Yea, hasn't worked so far, devs and orgs have been pushing for APIs ages, same with structured data, eg schema.org

The third option is agent to agent communication, mcp, etc.

Throwback to a brief moment when everyone wanted to support IFTTT. If I remember, it ran out of steam because it takes away eyeballs from the actual application (social networks in-particular). The use cases are also rather niche.