AX Is the New UX, Not the New DX: Software Is Being Rebuilt Agent-First
yenkel · x · 2026-11-06
Kenneth Auchenberg argues in an Innovation Endeavors post that Agent Experience (AX) is not merely the new developer experience but the new user experience.
- Over the past year AX emerged first in infrastructure: Netlify, Supabase and Resend rebuilt tools for coding agents and saw it in growth.
- The author says that is only the beginning: coding agents matured first, so infra changed first; next SaaS, enterprise software and consumer apps all become things agents use.
- As traditional UIs fade and software goes headless, the question shifts from how human users experience a product to how all users—increasingly agents—experience it.
- The post walks through what this means for how products are built, tested, onboarded and sold.
@yenkel amplifies it: in a world where agent traffic is most of the traffic, agent experience becomes user experience.
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