Agents

Software used to be written for people.

Now a second kind of reader shows up: an agent that reads your docs, calls your CLI, and parses whatever you print.

It does not skim. It does not guess well. It pays for every token.

Designing for that reader changes things. Interfaces that were merely inconvenient become expensive, and old ideas that never paid off for humans suddenly do.

These are notes from building for it.