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What the Agentic Web Means for the Future of Development
For the past few years, most people’s experience with AI has followed a simple pattern: you ask a question, the AI answers. You type, it types back. It’s a conversation, and a useful one, but it stops there. The AI tells you what to do; it doesn’t actually do it. That’s starting to change, and the shift has a name: the agentic web.
What Is the Agentic Web?
The agentic web is the idea of an internet where AI systems don’t just answer your questions, they take action on your behalf. Instead of telling you the steps to book a flight, an agentic AI could actually go to the airline’s website, compare options, fill out the form, and complete the booking, checking in with you only when a real decision needs your input.
Think of the difference between a research assistant who hands you a stack of notes, and a personal assistant who reads the notes, makes the phone calls, and gets the job done. The agentic web is the internet catching up to that second kind of helper.
Why Is This Happening Now?
Three things have come together at the same time. First, AI models have gotten much better at reasoning through multi-step problems, not just answering single questions. Second, these systems can now use “tools”: software connections that let an AI click buttons, fill out forms, search databases, or send information to other apps, much like a person using a mouse and keyboard. Third, more websites and services are building interfaces specifically designed for AI systems to use safely and reliably, rather than forcing them to awkwardly navigate pages built only for humans.
Put those three developments together, and you get AI that can not only think, but act.
The Problem It Solves
Until now, AI has been remarkably good at compressing information: summarizing articles, drafting emails, explaining ideas. But the moment you needed something actually done in the real world, a reservation made, a form submitted, a product returned, you had to take over. The AI’s usefulness ended right at the doorway to action.
This creates a strange gap. You might get a perfectly researched comparison of the five best noise-canceling headphones, complete with prices and reviews, but you still have to open ten browser tabs, log into your accounts, enter your shipping address, and click “buy” yourself. The agentic web closes that gap. It extends AI’s usefulness from advice to execution.
A Simple Analogy
Imagine hiring a very capable assistant. In the old model, that assistant could only answer questions you asked from across a desk: “What’s the best flight to Chicago?” they’d tell you, and then hand you the phone to make the call yourself.
In the agentic web, that same assistant can pick up the phone, dial the airline, compare a few options based on what they know you like, and book the one that fits, texting you only if something needs your approval, like a price that seems unusually high. You’ve moved from consulting an expert to delegating a task.
How It Works, in Plain Terms
An AI agent typically follows a loop: it understands your goal, breaks it into smaller steps, and then uses digital “tools” to carry them out. These tools might include browsing a website, reading a document, searching a database, filling out a form, or sending a message. After each step, the agent checks whether it’s making progress, adjusts if something goes wrong, and continues until the task is finished or it needs your input.
Crucially, this isn’t magic; it’s closer to a very fast, very literal employee who follows instructions, uses the same apps and websites you would, and reports back. The difference is speed and scale: it can do this across many tasks and services simultaneously, without getting tired or distracted.
Real-World Examples
Picture asking an AI assistant to plan a weekend trip. Instead of just giving you a list of hotels, it could check availability across several booking sites, compare prices, cross-reference reviews, and present you with a shortlist, or even complete the booking once you approve.
Or imagine managing your inbox: an agent could read incoming emails, draft replies in your voice, schedule meetings by checking everyone’s calendars, and flag only the messages that truly need your personal attention.
In a work setting, an agent might monitor a company’s project management tool, notice a task is overdue, gather the relevant files, and draft a status update for the team, all before you’ve had your morning coffee. These aren’t distant hypotheticals; early versions of these capabilities already exist, and they’re improving quickly.
The Opportunities
The upside is significant. Tasks that once took hours of tab-switching and form-filling could shrink to minutes. People with less time, technical skill, or patience for digital busywork could get the same benefits as those who are comfortable navigating a dozen apps. Small businesses could suddenly access the kind of administrative support that used to require a human assistant.
The Risks
But handing over the keys to an AI raises real concerns. Trust is the biggest one: if an agent is booking flights or spending money on your behalf, how do you know it will make the choices you’d actually want? Mistakes that were once just wrong answers in a chat window now become real-world consequences, a wrong purchase, a missed deadline, a poorly worded email sent to the wrong person.
Safety and control matter too. People will want clear boundaries: which actions can an agent take on its own, and which require a human’s explicit approval? There are also questions about security, since an agent that can log into your accounts and move money needs to be protected from being tricked or hijacked by bad actors. And there are broader questions for society: what happens to jobs built around these small digital tasks, and who is accountable when an autonomous system makes a costly error?
Why It Matters
The agentic web represents a meaningful shift in what the internet is for. For thirty years, the web has mostly been something people navigate themselves, clicking, typing, and comparing. The agentic web points toward a future where much of that navigation happens on your behalf, guided by your goals rather than your clicks.
That doesn’t mean people disappear from the loop. The most likely future isn’t one where AI does everything unsupervised, but one where people set the direction and approve the important decisions, while AI handles the repetitive, time-consuming steps in between. Getting that balance right, giving AI enough independence to be genuinely useful while keeping people meaningfully in control, is probably the central challenge of the agentic web’s next few years.
Whether you’re excited or wary about this shift, it’s worth paying attention. The way we use the internet is changing from something we operate to something that increasingly operates for us.
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Marrakech su Due Ruote: Il Giorno di Riposo di Sette Motociclisti tra Storia, Medina e Vita Notturna
Una Sosta Meritata: Sette Motociclisti alla Scoperta di Marrakech
Il 24 aprile, un gruppo di sette motociclisti ha deciso di spegnere i motori per un giorno di meritato riposo. La destinazione scelta per questa sosta rigenerante non poteva che essere Marrakech, una delle città più affascinanti e vibranti del Marocco. Abbandonate temporaneamente le moto, il gruppo si è immerso a capofitto nell’esplorazione di questo luogo magico.
La giornata è iniziata tra i vicoli labirintici della Medina e si è sviluppata fino alla celebre piazza principale, Jemaa el-Fnaa (la piazza che nel diario di viaggio era stata confusa con Fes). Qui, i viaggiatori hanno potuto respirare l’essenza autentica della cultura marocchina, tra profumi di spezie, colori sgargianti e un’accoglienza calorosa.
I Colori della Medina e la Vita Diurna
Durante il giorno, la Medina si rivela un vero e proprio palcoscenico a cielo aperto. I sette motociclisti hanno passeggiato tra i souk, dedicandosi allo shopping di artigianato locale e lasciandosi affascinare dalla maestria degli artigiani. Non è mancata una sosta culinaria per gustare i piatti tipici della tradizione marocchina e berbera, come il tajine e il couscous, ricchi di sapori intensi e spezie profumate.
L’incontro con la gente del posto ha arricchito l’esperienza diurna, trasformando una semplice passeggiata in un momento di profondo scambio culturale e umano.
- Esplorazione dei vicoli storici della Medina
- Shopping di artigianato tipico nei souk
- Degustazione di specialità culinarie marocchine e berbere
- Incontri spontanei e calorosi con gli abitanti locali
Marrakech nella Storia: Fondazione e Ruolo Culturale
Per comprendere appieno il fascino di Marrakech, è necessario fare un salto indietro nel tempo. Fondata nel 1062 da Abu Bakr ibn Umar, capo della dinastia degli Almoravidi, la città divenne rapidamente la capitale di un vasto impero che si estendeva dal Senegal fino alla Spagna. Marrakech ha dato il nome all’intero Paese ed è stata storicamente una delle città imperiali più influenti del Nord Africa.
Nel corso dei secoli, la città ha visto fiorire monumenti straordinari, moschee e palazzi che testimoniano il suo ruolo di crocevia culturale ed etnografico tra il mondo arabo, berbero e subsahariano. Oggi, il suo centro storico è riconosciuto come Patrimonio dell’Umanità dall’UNESCO.
La Marrakech di Oggi: Demografia ed Economia
Con una popolazione che supera il milione di abitanti, Marrakech è oggi una metropoli moderna che conserva intatta la sua anima antica. È la quarta città più grande del Marocco per popolazione, dopo Casablanca, Fez e Tangeri.
L’economia locale si basa prevalentemente sul turismo, che attira milioni di visitatori ogni anno grazie al suo patrimonio storico e alle strutture ricettive di lusso. Altre attività economiche di rilievo includono l’artigianato tradizionale (lavorazione del cuoio, dei metalli e dei tappeti), il commercio e l’agricoltura nelle fertili pianure circostanti del Tensift.
La Magia della Notte: Schiamazzi e Nuove Amicizie
Se il giorno ha affascinato i sette motociclisti, la notte li ha letteralmente conquistati. Con il calare del sole, piazza Jemaa el-Fnaa si trasforma: i banchi di cibo fumante prendono il posto dei venditori diurni, mentre musicisti, cantastorie e incantatori di serpenti animano la notte.
Il gruppo ha vissuto una serata indimenticabile, socializzando con tantissime persone del posto. Tra risate, schiamazzi e un pizzico di goliardia in mezzo alla folla, i motociclisti hanno celebrato l’ospitalità marocchina, portando a casa ricordi preziosi prima di rimettersi in viaggio sulle loro moto.
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What I packed, what I wish I had packed
I did not expect to finish, let alone enjoy it. Somewhere along the way the mind went quiet and the details sharpened. I am writing this still a little sweaty, grinning.
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Keep writing
I did not expect to finish, let alone enjoy it. Somewhere along the way the mind went quiet and the details sharpened. I am writing this still a little sweaty, grinning.
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A quiet afternoon at the library
I did not expect to finish, let alone enjoy it. Somewhere along the way the mind went quiet and the details sharpened. I am writing this still a little sweaty, grinning.