On Browsers, AI, and the web – Manu

webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces

Happy to be proven wrong but I call bullshit on that. Most content is not going to be consumed inside chat interfaces. Hell, the other side of the AI debate is arguing we don

But more importantly, there’s something else about this whole idea of chatting-with-a-computer-to-get-answers-from-the-web that I find incredibly off-putting: the complete lack of potential for serendipity.

Happy to be proven wrong but I call bullshit on that. Most content is not going to be consumed inside chat interfaces. Hell, the other side of the AI debate is arguing we don’t need a screen at all and we’re just going to talk to all these AI tools in no time. So which one is it? I guess no one knows.

But more importantly, there’s something else about this whole idea of chatting-with-a-computer-to-get-answers-from-the-web that I find incredibly off-putting: the complete lack of potential for serendipity. Clicking on links and landing on random sites has the potential to take me in unexpected directions. And also the web is filled with creative p... See more