What Happens When AI Agents Watch the Web Instead of Searching It?

Parag Agrawal says the web shifts from pull to push: agents stop only asking for a search right now and start asking the web to call them when something changes. Today an agent calls a tool or a sub-agent and tells it to go find something right now. In a couple of years, many uses will instead say call me if something happens, so an agent or a human can do the work.

If agents are everywhere and something is worth doing today while GPUs are still available, do it today. Tomorrow's work starts only when something new arrives: another agent's work, a change visible in satellite imagery, customer commentary, an agent finishing some compute, or a human with a new insight. A few feeds will drive new work, and one of them is everything that changed on the web.

The request stops being a one-time need. It becomes a long-term watch: if the information changing on the web shows something actionable, call, then run the agent. Compute then goes onto the entire web all the time on behalf of all the customers.