It is easy to forecast that the majority of use a particular platform provider (Gmail, etc) will face in the next few years will be from non-UI-using AI agents.
AI agents will open up (say) Gmail using OAuth, fiddle around reading/writing emails, changing settings, etc etc... all without using the traditional UI. So Gmail itself will become more of a process of AI, rather than a standalone application in its own right.
This, of course, will destroy the brand which has required years/dollars$ to create and maintain. I can see these platform providers fighting back and either limiting the non-UI access, or banning it outright.
So I see this all coming to a nasty fight in the next few years. Any thoughts?
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