Agent UX: spaCy creator Ines Montani on building tools for humans and coding agents
honnibal · x · 2026-10-21
Explosion co-founder Ines Montani argues that with coding agents, real work is shifting from visual SaaS dashboards to terminals driven by assistants like Claude Code — tools that agents can't operate are on the wrong side of how people work. Quoting Jeremiah Lowin ('we used to build software for people to build software; now we build software so software can build software'), she shares design lessons from Ellf, their agentic NLP platform built to serve humans and agents at the same time.
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