Web MCP / AI transactions

It's clear that AI is quickly changing the way we work, even if we can't see exactly how that will happen in the next few years. But looking at the advancements we've seen in just the last two months, I think it's finally starting to take shape.

So I'd like to look back on how knowledge work has evolved so far and then predict what's coming next. Everyone likes a good speculation video.

The story of how computers have evolved has been a story of abstraction. Machine code was abstracted away by human readable code and then we got the command line interface, and that has been abstracted away by modern operating systems.

Nowadays to use a computer, you no longer need to know how to program it or even how to use the command line interface. Of course, all that code is still being run, all those commands are still being executed.

But unless you're doing something highly technical, you don't need to be aware of any of it. Well, I think the same thing has already started happening with modern software and it's only going in one direction...

urself, it just makes way more sense to have the AI do this research for you. That's why website visits are way down right now.

And of course, the better the models get, the less sense it'll make. The same thing has also already happened with tools like Photoshop or PowerPoint.

AI is just better than 99% of us at this kind of work now. Unless you're doing something very specific, it just doesn't make sense to use these tools yourself anymore.

And again, the better the models get, the less sense it'll make. So my prediction is one or two years from now, most software won't be made for humans, it'll be made for AI.

But just like the command line interface still exists, we'll still need some interface for humans. The websites aren't going away.

It's just that fewer and fewer humans are going to be using your website and more and more they'll be used by AI. So it might be about time to start thinking about your website as a database and a tool for AI...

ood chance of using your competitor website instead. Because in this future, I'm imagining, unless the human is really motivated, they're not going to the website themselves.