No Hacks with Slobodan Manic: The Agentic Web, Unhyped
No Hacks with Slobodan Manic is a podcast about the agentic web: what happens when the visitors reading, citing, and buying from your website aren't human. Each episode is a clear take on what actually changed this week, whether it's real or hype, and whether it touches your website's traffic, revenue, or legal exposure. No clickbait, no vendor talking points, just a practitioner who checks the primary source and tells you plainly.
Host Slobodan Manic is a CXL-certified conversion specialist, WordPress Core Contributor, and the creator of Machine-First Architecture.
No Hacks with Slobodan Manic: The Agentic Web, Unhyped
224: Google's OS-Level AI Agent: Building Samantha Into Android
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We are significantly closer to movie Her than we were just 6 months ago.
Most coverage reads Google's last six months as a string of independent product updates. They aren't. Read together, they're the whole agentic-web stack closing one component at a time. Tuesday's Gemini Intelligence on Android announcement named the keystone - the first OS-level web-agent integration any company has built. Chrome auto-browse lands on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 in late June.
This episode walks through the six-month assembly (Chrome auto-browse, AppFunctions, AI Mode in Chrome, "Ask Google", web.dev agent-friendly guidance, Gemma 4 + Gemini Nano 4, UCP, A2A, Gemini Intelligence Android, DeepMind AI Pointer), the durability question I can't fully answer yet (five-year moat or six-month head start before Apple closes it), and the audit any website needs to pass once an agent can operate it on a user's phone.
Timestamps:
- 00:00 - 10 Google moves in six months
- 04:53 - Walking the six-month assembly, January through this week
- 06:51 - The full stack: action, agent-to-app, transaction, identity, distribution, input
- 09:01 - Late June: what changes for a salon owner with a booking website
- 10:32 - The durability question: Apple's six-month gap, not a five-year moat
- 15:47 - Machine-First Architecture: three visitor classes you have to design for
- 16:19 - Google's seven rules. nohacks.co passed six. Tailwind 4 broke one.
- 17:32 - The test you can run today: disable JavaScript, try to complete a booking
- 20:53 - A few days to fix it. The cost of waiting is unknown.
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Sources mentioned in this episode:
- DeepMind AI Pointer (May 13): https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
- Gemini Intelligence Android (May 12): https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/gemini-intelligence/
- Chrome auto-browse preview (January): https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/gemini-3-auto-browse/
- AppFunctions for Android (February): https://developer.android.com/ai/appfunctions
- Google web.dev - "Build agent-friendly websites" (April): https://web.dev/articles/agent-friendly-websites
- Universal Commerce Protocol: https://ucp.dev/
Related reading on No Hacks:
- Selling to AI: The Complete Guide to Agentic Commerce - https://nohacks.co/blog/agentic-commerce
- Google's Agent-Friendly Checklist Has 7 Rules. Tailwind v4 Breaks One. - https://nohacks.co/blog/google-agent-friendly-checklist
- Amazon v. Perplexity: The CFAA Case That Decides Whether AI Agents Can Visit Your Website - https://nohacks.co/blog/amazon-perplexity-cfaa-agent-visitor-rights
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