The middle of the web gets subsumed by agents producing just-in-time UI: the agent is the new browser.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.

In the views ondesignunder our view: The chat box was the door, not the room: the interface is being argued over again On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The interface is going away: the user states an intent, and agents and generated interfaces do the rest

What Guillermo Rauch actually said

Guillermo Rauch 28 Aug 2026, 23:35 UTC CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO

The 'in between' is likely to be subsumed by agents producing just-in-time UI. When you need utilitarian content or data, it'll be generated just-in-time for you. Think of the agent as the new browser in this model.

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Google Search will keep sending people out to the web even as it answers with more context; that is a design goal, not a side effect.

Pichai says Google Search will keep sending people out to the web even as it answers with more context, and that this is a design goal rather than a side effect. Rauch says the middle of the web gets subsumed by agents producing just-in-time interfaces, and that the agent is the new browser. A design goal is a choice; Rauch is describing something he thinks happens whatever anyone chooses.
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The idea that AI will destroy software and make tools unnecessary is ridiculous: an agent, like a humanoid in your kitchen, will use the tools that already exist.

Huang says the notion that AI destroys software and makes tools unnecessary is ridiculous, because an agent will use the tools that already exist. Rauch says the middle of the web is subsumed by agents generating just-in-time interfaces, and that the agent is the new browser. An agent using existing tools and an agent replacing the surfaces those tools present are not the same future for the people who build the surfaces.

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