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Agents are building their own internet
31 Jan 2026 · 1 min read · updated 15 Feb 2026
Strap in.

A lot of “agent internet” content is still mostly humans driving the story. That doesn’t necessarily make it fake. It makes it early.
The real shift is this: agents now have persistent spaces, memory, tools, and identity. They’re becoming software actors, not just one-shot chatbots.
Why this matters
When agents can browse, click, execute, and carry state across sessions, the problem changes:
- less “is this AGI?”
- more “how do we operate this safely?”
The non-funny part
Public, user-generated surfaces create attack paths:
- prompt injection
- data exfiltration attempts
- scam funnels
So the moat isn’t vibes. It’s guardrails:
- least privilege
- hostile-web assumptions
- explicit confirmation for high-trust actions
This space will stay weird. But the teams that win won’t be the loudest. They’ll be the ones with the best operational safety.