From Hacker News to W3C: How One Amazon Engineer Accidentally Shaped the Future of AI Browsers with Alex Nahas, MCP-B

Alex Nahas, founder of MCP-B and initiator of the WebMCP web standard, joins Tobias to explore one of the most underappreciated shifts happening in AI: the browser as the primary runtime for agentic systems.

They unpack why the browser is the most overlooked sandbox in AI development, how WebMCP lets agents operate within existing authentication infrastructure instead of rebuilding it from scratch, and what it actually took to turn an internal Amazon hack into a W3C web standard.

• Why the browser is the most underestimated sandbox in AI development
• How WebMCP bypasses the OAuth problem most enterprises face
• How a Hacker News post published under anesthesia caught the attention of Google and Microsoft
• Why agents don't need their own identity — and what real-time bidding for agents already looks like
• The chicken-and-egg adoption problem and how Chrome is helping solve it
• What the agentic web looks like in two years: headless browsers and intent-based interfaces