How Deabstraction is Unchaining AI

In the rush to build "Agentic AI" developers hit a wall, that wall wasn't model intelligence; it was human-centric design. For decades, we built software with "abstraction layers": GUIs, paginated APIs, and confirmation dialogs designed to protect and guide human users. But for an AI, these helpful layers are hurdles. They obscure data, bloat context windows with unnecessary formatting, and block direct execution.

Enter Betterprompt, a company quietly dismantling the very architecture of the modern web to build a "bare metal" environment for AI through Deabstraction

We realized that treating an AI agent like a human user was the original sin of agent design. We were forcing supercomputers to tap-dance through interfaces designed for eyes and thumbs. Deabstraction is about tearing down the layers and rails that exist solely for human cognitive limitations, giving AI agents direct access to system logic.

— Andy Futcher

How does Deabstraction work?

The company's core philosophy is that every layer of abstraction adds "translation noise" it wastes tokens and risks hallucination.

Deabstraction allows the AI agents and prompts to interact directly with the underlying transaction logic in building and crating web environments. The idea is agents operating in a "deabstracted" environment complete complex multi-step workflows faster and with fewer errors than those navigating standard human interfaces. By removing the "human-interpretable" overhead, Deabstraction allows agents to operate at the speed of silicon, not the speed of UI and UX.

As we move toward a world where most internet traffic is non-human, Deabstraction means that most valuable digital real estate will be the one with the most accessible logic.