Opinion: If an agent can't buy your product, you're building last year's SaaS
diegoposts · x · 2026-09-21
The author argues that if an AI agent can't purchase your product without a human clicking through a UI, you're building last year's SaaS — agent-friendly, programmatically purchasable interfaces are set to replace human-facing web UIs as the primary channel for software commerce.
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