Mathias (Matt) Biilmann, Co‑Founder and CEO of Netlify, is steering the company into a new era where AI agents build the web, not just humans. He shared in a recent interview that Netlify now sees 10,000 sites created daily by AI agents using tools like Bolt and Cognition Labs. These aren’t just prototypes, as they include fully functional apps, like 3D object editors launched directly from prompts. “They’re enabling people who could never build a custom application to build one,” Biilmann said.
This agent-led shift is changing who builds and how they build. Beginners are discovering coding through AI, and seasoned developers are skipping boilerplate work for more creative tasks. As Biilmann puts it, why would you start from scratch when you can get the basics from a prompt?
Biilmann’s leadership centers on putting developers first and now, increasingly, AI agents. He helped introduce the Jamstack concept, a framework that gave developers faster, simpler ways to build for the web at scale. Today, he is expanding that thinking to a new idea called Agent Experience, or AX, which focuses on building platforms that support AI agents as effectively as they support humans.
He sees AX as the next step in the evolution of software development, enabling millions of future developers to collaborate with AI. For Biilmann, the future of the open web depends on giving both humans and agents the freedom to build without being confined to closed systems.
“If we can build the right agent experience around the web, that will make it possible again to build really wild and creative experiences, but still allow any person interacting with them that also have agents helping them to interact in whatever way they want… I think that's one of the things that I think is sort of underplayed in where we could see the web going,” he said.
Biilmann sees the stakes clearly. For him, the future of the web depends on keeping it open to everyone, including the agents already starting to build it.
