Draft

A subtle dynamic today that will likely end up being quite fundamental in the future is that AI agents implicitly will end up procuring a significant portion of tech in the future for you and your company. For companies that have existing standards for a particular tech or where there’s a strong preference, the agent will rely on that. Even then, the agent will eventually make it more and more obvious when they’re running into issues with the existing tech. But for all new workflows or software, which will be the vast majority of software procured in the future, the agent is generally going to be in the driver’s seat for what gets used. This has major implications for platforms because it means if you’re not able to be easily provisioned by an agent, and you don’t have usable APIs for every core feature, you’re basically dead to the agent. Over time agents will ruthlessly prioritize what they use based on what’s easiest, what’s most effective, what’s cheapest, or other parameters you give it. In theory people have always done this, but agents will be much more utilitarian here than people ever were. Wild implications.