BREAKING
AI Agents Become a New Kind of User
The "user = human" assumption breaks
How agents read an interface
Vision-based
high cost
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Analyzes screenshots
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Tens of thousands of tokens
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Error-prone
Accessibility tree
efficient
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Parses page structure
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Around thousands of tokens
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More reliable
Design responses to agents
1
Revisit pricing
↓
2
Manage permissions
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3
Overhaul UI
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4
Limit access
Open up or hold back
Enable agents
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Semantic HTML and ARIA
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Direct API via MCP
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Least-privilege tokens
Restrict agents
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Finance and healthcare friction
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Netflix browsing value
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Human review for critical code
Agent-first design accelerates
AI NEWS BLITZ
Software firms are redesigning their apps to treat AI agents as a new kind of user.