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The Web Wasn't Built for AI Agents
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The Web Wasn't Built for AI Agents

via Dev.toDmytro3w ago

Picture this: An AI agent walks into a website. Well, not walks, more like stumbles blindly while yelling "WHERE'S THE SUBMIT BUTTON?" The web was built for humans. AI agents are just...improvising. The Current State: Digital Archaeology Think about how you use the internet: You open a browser, search for something, click around a few pages, fill out some forms, maybe compare prices across tabs. Perfect workflow for a human brain. Absolute nightmare for an AI. When an agent tries to do something simple, like finding flights, comparing products, or booking a table, it has to either scrape HTML or literally analyze screenshots to figure out what's clickable. It's the digital equivalent of trying to use a microwave by staring at it really hard and hoping something happens. Agents don't "see" a booking form. They see a wall of div soup and CSS classes named things like btn-primary-v2-final-ACTUAL . Then they guess. And sometimes they guess wrong. Enter WebMCP: The Web, But With an API Brai

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