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The agentic web ... yeah, AI is reinventing the web too

Will the agentic web be awesome or awful?

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John Koetsier
Jan 07, 2026
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The web has always been a compromise between what humans want and what machines can reasonably do. Well, and what advertisers want, of course, and what publishes did to please them.

At the beginning, it was simple: pages, links, and curiosity. You clicked around because that’s all there was to do. Search engines arrived not because the web was broken, bu…

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