Only 3 pure software businesses at the limit: agent-useful APIs, foundation models, autoresearch swarms
menhguin · x · 2026-09-03
A take on the endpoint of software: only three kinds of pure software businesses survive — APIs that are uniquely useful to agents, foundation models, and all-devouring autoresearch-style zerg swarms. The author adds that the future "boring agent internet" will mostly be inter-agent traffic between model providers, MCPs/APIs and the occasional 1% prosumer, with agent queries replacing reshared human-generated content.
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