AIïen Visitors

This company is using headless browsers, like Selenium, to allow AI agents to talk to the web.

it will be AI agents that increasingly visit your business website, which implies that human web visits will decline accordingly.

people use a lot of acronyms these days. You know, you have MCP, you have A2A, you have OpenAPI. But if those aren’t available, you can just do what could be considered the dumb thing: you just use a website. And websites are out there, there are plenty of them. There are billions of websites. And when your user is going to prompt your agent to do something, you might not always have a first-party integration available.

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If we want AI agents to interact with the rest of the legacy internet, they need a bridge.

Please, no. Go away. I’m fond of some quiet corners of the “legacy” internet.

I seriously doubt this will ever work consistently with the big websites like Amazon and LinkedIn unless you have a network of thousands of IP addresses making requests and circumventing Cloudflare walls and other bot blockers; essentially recreating a web scraping botnet. You’d need to have partnerships with these websites if you wanted to guarantee the agents would be able to access them.

I have heard that OpenAI’s Operator has been blocked by lots of websites like these precisely because they have neither a benign-looking botnet of IP addresses or partnerships with them. They really need Amazon to whitelist their IP address blocks for this to work.


That being said, this would probably be a big improvement for users with accessibility problems like blindness. I tried using a screen reader, briefly, and I did not enjoy the experience. The AI Agent would likely do a far better job of parsing the web than trying to navigate websites with poor accessibility using the tab key. Between this and far more realistic TTS thanks to LLMs, these are fantastic uses for this tech. Hell, you could get an LLM to generate descriptions of images without alt text and read it out to you.

LLMs: the ultimate accessibility tech?


This idea of building services designed for AI agents is becoming more pervasive. You’ve got hosting companies like Netlify designing interfaces specifically for AI agents and database services like Supabase creating MCP servers.

Maybe someday people will forego the whole “website frontend” thing altogether and just use MCP servers to push data back and forth from AI Agents.

And I do get it. For most people, the UX of a desktop system sucks. It sure is a lot easier to tell someone else what you want to do while you use the only interface that people seem to really like: mobiles.

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