Two repositories caught my eye this month. The first is google/agents-cli , Google's official tooling for building agents on Google Cloud — a CLI plus a bundle of markdown "skills" that any coding assistant (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor) can pick up. The second is Flipbook , an experimental "browser" launched by ex-OpenAI researchers two days ago. Flipbook has no HTML, no DOM, no rendered components. Every pixel you see — including the text — is generated frame-by-frame by a video diffusion model streaming over a WebSocket. They look like they belong to different conversations. They don't. Put them next to each other and a pattern emerges: the layer we used to call "software" is being squeezed from both ends. What we write is becoming markdown. What users see is becoming a model output. The middle keeps getting thinner. What we write is becoming markdown Skills are repositories of instructions, not deployed services. The runtime is whatever coding agent the user happens to have installed.…