Exporing AI's Impact on Web Development: The Future of Tech (w/ Rachel-Lee Nabors)

Jun 16, 2025

Rachel-Lee Nabors, a web standards expert and developer educator, dives into the transformative role of AI in web development. They discuss the 'enshittification' of platforms and how personal agents may empower users in the attention economy. The conversation highlights Multi-Channel Protocols as a new frontier for content visibility and SEO. Nabors also explores how large language models are reshaping programming languages and coding practices, urging adaptability in this rapidly evolving tech landscape.

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Rachel's AI Journey and AgentQL

Rachel Nabors shares her journey from front-end development exhaustion to studying AI and building AgentQL with LLMs.
She highlights AI's mathematical nature and her collaboration on AI agents that interact with web pages.

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The Enshittification and the Deplatformed Web

Platform 'enshittification' captures how platforms centralize profits by controlling both supply and demand.
AI and personal agents threaten this by enabling users to aggregate content independently, leading to a potential deplatformed web.

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Rise of Personal Agents

Personal agents will soon access users' social accounts to provide customized feeds without platform intervention.
Platforms will have to accommodate authenticated access to these agents, reshaping how users interact with content.

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In this episode, we dive into the impact of AI on web development with Rachel Lee-Nabors. Discover how AI is transforming user experience and the future landscape of software careers. We discuss the concept of 'enshittification' of platforms, the rise of personal agents, and revolutionary technologies like MCP. With AI changing coding practices and the significance of documentation for training large language models (LLMs), this conversation emphasizes adaptability in tech. Join us to learn about the evolution of programming languages and the future of the internet shaped by personal algorithms and feeds.

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Rachel-Lee Nabors
Rachel-Lee Nabors spent the better part of their career on web standards and opensource and has spearheaded developer education at FAANG and startups, on the React Team, and W3C. Now they work to usher in the Agentic Web, building AgentQL and teaching a new generation of builders that “it's not magic; it's just math.” You can find them drinking tea in London or shadowboxing in Palo Alto.

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0:00 AI's Impact on Development

3:12 The Future of Browsers

5:11 The Enshittification of Platforms

10:46 The Rise of Personal Agents

14:15 Automating Interactions with the Web

18:29 The Changing Landscape of Software Careers

20:50 User Experience and Web Structure

23:08 The New SEO: MCP and LLMs

27:38 The Future of Programming Languages

30:23 Embracing New Systems

36:53 The Potential of AI in Our Lives

39:14 The AI Hype Train

45:49 A Return to Web Roots

48:05 Closing Thoughts on the Future

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