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What an agent cloud should be is a question to put to agents, not to ourselves.
Mental modelYou are not the user
Their wordsIt’s no longer about us and what we think, but about what agents need.
Our reading
The cloud and the web were built for people, with every layer assuming a human is watching.
Their wordsThe cloud we have today, and the web it sits on, were built for people. Every layer assumes a human is watching
Their wordsIt has to set us up for an agent-native future, where the primitives are built for agents from the ground up rather than retrofitted from human tools. And realistically, it has to meet us where we are today, acting as a translation layer between the human-shaped web that exists now and the agent-shaped one we’re moving toward.
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