AI-Agent mediated navigation

AI is moving from passive chat interfaces to active agentic systems, shifting UX from conversational interaction toward delegative interaction where users assign goals and verify outcomes.

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Jakob Nielsen on UX ↗

Artificial intelligence will evolve from passive tools to active agentic systems that plan, execute, and iterate on tasks autonomously.

In UX terms, this is a fundamental shift from Conversational UI to Delegative UI.

This shift introduces a review paradox: it is often cognitively harder to verify AI work than to produce it oneself, which can drive review fatigue and superficial oversight.