Towards the end of my post back in march about the near future of agents I mentioned possible changes to the architecture of how Application and UI interact. Once that hard layer is built into applications and websites, something happens to the way software operates. The UI stops being the only control layer, and becomes the human layer only. The app and the interface become completely divorced. Jay https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/06/the-near-future-of-ai-agents/ This idea has basically been the working hypothesis across a number of the group chats I’m in for at least the last year. Over time I’ve been exposed to a great deal of manic experimentation and discussion about this trajectory from some of the best designers I know.The clearest signs however that the UX layer is actually delaminating from the application layer came this week at Google I/O with their announcement of Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered Google Search results. In real time, an agent will wake up inside of Google’s…
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