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Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era

Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era

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Netlify CEO and co-founder Matt Biilmann joins a16z general partner Martin Casado to explore how AI is reshaping web development—not just through faster code generation, but by fundamentally shifting how we think about building for the web. At the center of this shift is Agent Experience (AX), a new paradigm where AI agents aren’t just tools, but active participants in development, shaping both the creative process and the underlying infrastructure. Matt shares how Netlify is evolving to meet this future, why the next 100 million web developers will collaborate with AI, and what’s at stake if the web doesn’t adapt—will we see a thriving, open, AI-powered internet, or a future dominated by walled gardens? Check out everything a16z is doing with artificial intelligence, including articles, projects, and more podcasts here – https://a16z.com/ai/ Chapters: 0:00 -1:06 | Intro 01:07 - 1:43 | Overview of Netlify CEO Matt Billman 01:44 - 3:57 | What Netlify Does for Developers 03:58 - 5:02 | Early Team Innovation 05:03 - 6:23 | The Driving Force Of Netlify ‘Developer Experience’ 06:24 - 8:46 | How AI Interacts With The Web 08:47 - 10:43 | How AI Needs To Evolve 10:44 - 12:07 | The Future And What Web Teams Will Be Able To Build 12:08 - 15:29 | Agent Experience (AX) Of The Web 15:30 - 20:12 | Opportunities For AI Agents + Human Creativity 20:13 - 22:55 | New Tools Using Netlify 22:56 - 24:14 | Technical vs Non- Technical Users? 24:15 - 25: 28 | Changing Frameworks 25:29 - 26:44 | Shift From Developer Experience To Agent Experience 26:45 - 27:59 | Agent Experience With Humans 28:00 - 28:59 | Humans Factored Into The Design Process 30:00 - 32:27 | AX As A Discipline 32:28 - 35:12 | The Consumption Layer For Existing Tools For Founders 35:13 - 36:34 | The Use Of Primitives 36:35 - 38:37 | The Future Of Web Experiences and Developers 38:38 - | A Glimpse Into Builders Using AI In An Innovative Way

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0:00 - 1:07
1:07 duration184 words

| Intro

"one of the things I've started thinking a lot about that will tie a little into this is this concept of ax or agent experience I I wrote an article about that and and have sort of centered a lot of nl..."

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1:07 - 1:46
0:38 duration126 words

| Overview of Netlify CEO Matt Billman

"Matt great to have you here thanks for coming and joining very excited to talk about AI when it comes to the web and what you're thinking about there so maybe for some background just give a quick ove..."

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1:46 - 3:59
2:13 duration405 words

| What Netlify Does for Developers

"the time when netfi came out it was actually a pretty uh radical departure from how we've done web development and now it is the standard so in like many ways you're this Pioneer of the web so maybe t..."

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3:59 - 5:03
1:04 duration243 words

| Early Team Innovation

"like when you first came talking about the jams it was actually a very radical idea you can build an entire you know what's funny at the time even you were hedging you're like maybe more Dynamic sites..."

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5:03 - 6:25
1:22 duration269 words

| The Driving Force Of Netlify ‘Developer Experience’

"other thing that that was key for us that'll relate to what we thinking about now in sort of the AI space was then seeing okay if we believe in that architecture as the right approach and we believe i..."

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6:25 - 8:48
2:22 duration509 words

| How AI Interacts With The Web

"through this funny I went through our old investment memo and that theine it was like basically this is like developers so you believe like developers are like key and long web this basically mean web..."

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8:48 - 10:45
1:57 duration372 words

| How AI Needs To Evolve

"essentially build exactly the same that we built the last 10 years so we use that to build more of the same kind of web experiences websites web apps that we've built in the last 10 years it just lowe..."

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10:45 - 12:08
1:22 duration291 words

| The Future And What Web Teams Will Be Able To Build

"like a form is it stuff like like richer unstructured content in Media or or I would say that's the area I think it's impossible to predict you can start predicting what elements can go into it right ..."

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12:08 - 15:31
3:23 duration716 words

| Agent Experience (AX) Of The Web

"in the past this has just not really worked right like I mean you had you know flash which is pretty good end up being kind of some flash was there right like but had so this will actually lead to to ..."

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15:31 - 20:14
4:43 duration987 words

| Opportunities For AI Agents + Human Creativity

"there's two ideas here one of them is like something that will draft on the AI thing and there's a separate one which is almost like a reimagined layer yeah and you see them together and is there is i..."

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20:14 - 22:56
2:41 duration549 words

| New Tools Using Netlify

"of at the center of this which is a lot of these new tools news netlify right so yeah um and so like whether this is like text to make a web page yeah you know text to like make a basic app like a lot..."

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22:56 - 24:15
1:19 duration257 words

| Technical vs Non- Technical Users?

"I do you think the people that are using these things are primarily technical or non-technical it's it's really a a broad spectrum right like that's also really interesting right like it there there's..."

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24:15 - 25:30
1:14 duration252 words

25: 28 | Changing Frameworks

"think that this spells kind of like a slow down to Frameworks like is this the next thing because like in one way to think about Frameworks yeah whatever your framework is it just like it reduces you ..."

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25:30 - 26:46
1:15 duration234 words

| Shift From Developer Experience To Agent Experience

"like implementing apis and you got an API posted you actually want to have like more of the semantics shown so the llm will learn it like in talk in context rather than like it's totally Poss right li..."

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26:46 - 28:00
1:13 duration272 words

| Agent Experience With Humans

"very similar thing to this which is just like these LMS are very good at it just because of the way that it and they they're another company that that I can see is really investing into the agent expe..."

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28:00 - 30:01
2:01 duration416 words

| Humans Factored Into The Design Process

"their thing well I mean maybe I'll just be just a more explicit on this question which is if I just take if I just draw from my own experience so I use cursor yeah I do a lot of web dev for fun yeah r..."

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30:01 - 32:28
2:26 duration464 words

| AX As A Discipline

"know you as NF fire seeing a lot more tools using Ai and you think that the web has to shift as a platform to be kind of better suited of these workloads so that they can both like create kind of new ..."

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32:28 - 35:13
2:44 duration544 words

| The Consumption Layer For Existing Tools For Founders

"on let's say a web related company today like an infr like I run the infrastructure fund so like an infrastructure company that provides say an API for a web service so is your view that that The Prim..."

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35:13 - 36:36
1:23 duration286 words

| The Use Of Primitives

"you're we're going to see a similar shift I think so yeah I think so like you you for example one one one example right like is maybe if You' ask me two years ago about servess databases right like I ..."

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36:36 - 38:39
2:03 duration391 words

| The Future Of Web Experiences and Developers

"that you would like it to go people focus on Ax yeah what does the web look like so the web is obviously like really thriving and it's the platform of choice to build on an an experience on and it is ..."

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38:39 - 41:30
2:50 duration571 words

| A Glimpse Into Builders Using AI In An Innovative Way

"the future like I know that you actually see a lot of these kind of like new yeah AI projects show so maybe talk through some of the cooler ones you've seen yeah I mean I just always try to collect th..."