"Agent-led Growth": coding agents drive the next wave for dev-tool companies
ycombinator · x · 2026-08-19
The 1024th argues coding agents are leading the next wave of customer growth for its clients including Supabase, OpenRouter, Resend, PostHog, Mintlify and Braintrust. As more code gets written by agents, they proactively discover and adopt machine-friendly docs and tools — so instead of tricks that get you hard-coded into codebases, products should be naturally discoverable and usable by agents. It's being called Agent-led Growth.
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