Ben Hylak argues products should be headless MCPs plugged into agents
What happened
On 29 October 2026, Simon Willison's report recorded a view from Ben Hylak: every product he uses should be a headless MCP, and once connected to an AI agent, users should not need to care about the underlying details. In the same report, Hylak gave one exception: the product he works on does not fit this argument, because its customers like its UI. The matter remains at the level of opinion, with no follow-up discussion or product-level progress.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 4 h ago
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- Simon WillisonQuoting Ben Hylak
Ben Hylak argues that every product he uses should be a headless MCP feeding into an agent, so users never have to think about what lies underneath — except for his own product, whose customers love its UI.
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