The Era of Abundant Intelligence
The internet broke the silos of knowledge. Information that once lived in libraries, accessible only to those who could physically be there, became available to every terminal, every phone, every laptop. We were always intelligent. The internet augmented that intelligence with interconnected knowledge. Productivity compounded.
Now something different is happening. We're building machines that come with intelligence already inside them. A supply chain system knows demand forecasts and adjusts inventory across global vendors. A fleet management agent knows vehicle maintenance schedules and books repairs without manual oversight. A procurement bot knows compliance requirements, preferred suppliers, and real-time pricing. They do all that without fatigue or bias.
These machines don't need to be told what to do. They reason. They plan. They execute.
Human productivity exploded when the internet gave us access to knowledge. Machine productivity will explode the same way when we give intelligent devices access to the web like humans have.
The problem is that we built web interfaces for humans. Browsers. Tabs. Clicks. One decision at a time. The web assumed a person at the keyboard, losing context, forgetting sessions, needing visual affordances. Agents need none of that. They need to get things done.
The Search Problem
Search solved a human problem. We can't evaluate a million options, so systems ranked and filtered them down to ten. That was the right interface for creatures with limited attention and finite working memory.
Agents don't share those constraints. They can evaluate the million options. What they can't do is act on them.
An agent doesn't need a ranked list of flights. It needs a flight booked. The ranking was never the goal, it was a waypoint for humans who had to make the final decision themselves. Agents skip the waypoint. They need the outcome.
Search organized information for human consumption. What's missing is infrastructure that makes information operable, that lets machines execute against it, not just retrieve it.
Why the Web is Hostile to Agents
Agents cannot operate the web reliably today. The reasons are structural.
Frontends ship breaking changes continuously. DOMs mutate. Elements move between releases. Feature flags alter flows mid-session. A workflow that executed yesterday fails today because a button moved thirty pixels or a form added a field.
Anti-bot systems treat all automation as hostile. CAPTCHAs, fingerprint checks, rate limits, session traps. The web's security model assumes a human at the browser. Every automation attempt triggers defenses designed to block exactly that behavior.
Authentication flows presume human presence. Multi-factor challenges, session timeouts, cookie policies, OAuth redirects. The plumbing of identity on the web was never designed for unattended machine operation.
These aren't bugs. They're the architecture of a system built for different users. The web was optimized for humans who need visual affordances. Agents need stable contracts and reliable execution.
Why This Has to Be Infrastructure
The approaches currently in the market are applications, not infrastructure.
RPA tools record and replay clicks on a fragile DOM. They break constantly and require human maintenance proportional to the number of workflows. Labor arbitrage, not scalable infrastructure.
Browser agents use LLM inference to guess which pixel to click next. They're trapped in the ergonomics of human UIs, inheriting all the ambiguity and latency that implies. Model inference on every action is expensive and slow.
Agentic search enriches queries with semantic understanding but still delivers links, not outcomes. A waypoint, not a destination.
Infrastructure does something different. It absorbs complexity so layers above it don't have to. It provides stable abstractions over unstable substrates. It lets applications focus on intent while handling the mechanics of execution.
The TinyFish Stack
Every major computing shift produces a new infrastructure layer. Client-server gave us relational databases. The web gave us search engines and CDNs. Mobile gave us app stores and push notifications. Cloud gave us virtualization and container orchestration.
The shift to AI agents will produce its own infrastructure. We're building it.
Tetra: Browsers for Machines. Browser infrastructure rebuilt for machine operation. Deterministic rendering, strict resource control, fingerprint management, observability designed for fleet operation. The human-UX surface area is removed. What remains is tuned for unattended execution at scale.
AgentQL: Structure from Noise. Human-oriented pages become machine-readable structures. Instead of brittle CSS selectors or XPath chains, AgentQL works on the semantic skeleton of a page. It identifies entities, actions, and constraints in a stable schema. Agents express intent ("find the earliest refundable flight under budget") rather than binding to volatile DOM details. Designed to survive A/B tests, frontend redesigns, and DOM churn.
Reef: Workflow Learning and Execution. Navigation layer that separates four concerns: exploration (discovering new paths), generalization (patterns become reusable abstractions), optimization (learning from execution), and execution (stable workflows run without continuous model inference). GPU-heavy inference stays where it adds value. The hot path runs at machine speed.
Mino and MinoAPIs: Operational Surface. Takes natural language intent and returns outcomes as data. The complexity of site navigation, form filling, authentication, session management, and anti-bot handling is abstracted away. Agents see stable APIs with clear contracts. Underneath, messy websites are being driven.
The Position
Google organized the world's information. TinyFish makes that information operable.
Information was the starting point. Outcomes are the end state. The web has been optimized for the start for thirty years. The infrastructure that enables machine operation of the web, at scale, with reliability guarantees, is the missing layer.
Whoever builds it shapes how AI systems interact with the real economy.
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