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Tell HN: Stop building software for people, build it for agents instead

3 points by keepamovin 2 days ago · 4 comments · 1 min read


Yep, controversial title. Engagement farming, j/k. I'm serious. It's a real thing. Agents are a market. They're a customer. They have wants and needs. If you address those, and agents find it easy and efficient to use your tools, that's the new "grassroots developer adoption".

Jeopardy: what’s something that you truly believe that most people disagree with?

theorchid 2 days ago

I don't want to live in a world ruled by AI agents. I sincerely hope that superintelligence won't emerge while I'm still alive. I don't want to live in this dystopia.

  • keepamovinOP 2 days ago

    I think it will be less "ruled by" agents, and more agents/robots doing all the plumbing that we don't want to do ourselves.

  • philipallstar 2 days ago

    This is no different to "provide an API" being phrased as "build your software for curl".

    • keepamovinOP 2 days ago

      Similar, but agents aren't just static, so the needs are different. The "API shape" should be different, somewhat. Aesthetics.

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