Claude Code is your customer
9 days ago
- #Agent-driven Economy
- #AI Native
- #API-first
- The term 'AI Native' has evolved from simply adding chat features to existing products to truly integrating AI in meaningful ways, exemplified by Claude Code.
- Building API-first products is crucial for AI-native startups, as agents (not humans) are becoming the primary users of these APIs.
- The Bezos API Mandate from 2002, which emphasized designing internal tools as if external developers would use them, is now more relevant than ever for AI agents.
- API documentation is now the primary user interface for AI agents, making clarity, consistency, and ease of integration critical for success.
- Switching costs for services are collapsing as AI agents can quickly replace one service with another, eliminating traditional SaaS moats like integration complexity.
- The volume of API calls is expected to explode as agents operate at machine speed, necessitating infrastructure that can handle this scale.
- Founders should prioritize API-first development, test with agents, design for programmatic discovery, instrument for agent analytics, and adopt usage-based pricing.
- Companies like Stripe, Twilio, and AWS, which already prioritize programmatic access, are well-positioned for the agent-driven future.
- By 2030, products without APIs designed for agents will be obsolete, similar to products without mobile support today.