The Agentic Web and Original Sin

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myflash13 · 1h ago

The entire point of AI agents is to be able to perform actions like humans do. If the “agentic web” requires websites to support new protocols such as MCP, or as this article is proposing, a new payments protocol, then what is the point of an AI agent? Now you’re just asking for websites to build APIs.

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