AI agents have gotten remarkably good at thinking and remarkably bad at showing. Most agentic products still respond with paragraphs and markdown tables.
This talk covers generative UI, letting the agent produce the interface best suited to the moment. We'll look at the emerging protocol layer, including Google's A2 UI, and walk through a working example. You'll leave knowing where generative UI fits in your stack and how to ship a first version without rewriting your front end.
This talk has been presented at JSNation US 2026, check out the latest edition of this JavaScript Conference.























