This is the AWS moment for agents.
OpenAI just shipped the Agents API, and everything that made agents hard to build is now something you rent instead of build. Keeping one running for days, remembering what it's doing, using tools, recovering when a step fails. Now it's an API call.
Before AWS, you had to buy and run your own servers, so only well funded teams could build real/scalable products.
AWS made the hard part rentable, and all the value moved up to whoever had the best idea for what to build on top. Same thing is happening here.
I'll be honest, my first reaction was that this is bad news for a lot of people I know. If your whole company is an agent platform, the thing you spent the last year building is now included for the price of tokens.
But the more I sat with it, the more I think it's really good news if you're building for one specific industry. Basically, vertical software type stuff.
If the hardest engineering just became a line item, then the only thing left that's actually hard is knowing the job. Like what counts as a done claim, what makes a filing get rejected, where the money leaks.
So the wedge now is owning one painful workflow with your own tools, data, approvals, and a clear ROI. Freight exceptions, insurance reviews, security triage, revenue leakage, healthcare admin, compliance ops.
I see a lot of doomers on X saying software is over (and sometimes I feel the same way), you'll just use Claude or ChatGPT for everything.
BUT, if that were true, OpenAI wouldn't be shipping infrastructure for other people to build agents on.
They're telling you exactly what they think: the general model is theirs, the 10,000+ specific jobs it needs to be pointed at are yours.
I think software is just evolving.
It's becoming an agent internet, and every layer of it, the tools, the workflows, the boring jobs, gets rebuilt for a user that doesn't have eyes or hands.
That's a lot of companies waiting to be built.
I agree. Coding has been solved, but don’t listen to all the doomer talk on leaving coding. Coding has been solved (I.e the act of converting English to code (tbf, it’s was already on its way to being solved before LLMs)) but software engineering is far from solved. There is objectively more software in the world than “crud in front of db” apps. As long as there is a need for more complex software. Software engineering hasn’t been solved, it’s just more efficient.
If you're a developer, trust me, this is for you.
These are and gonna be the best tech in 2026:
-@opencode: A coding agent that works in Terminal, IDE, and it's so good.
-@tan_stack: The best ecosystem for frontend, if you hate or want an alternative to Nextjs, they have TansStack Start you can deploy it on @Netlify, @Cloudflare not a locked framework :)
-@convex: One of the best and modern backend framework out there, and it's also self-hosted
-@shadcn: The godfather of UI libraries, I think he doesn't need an explanation.
-@autumnpricing: The fastest way ever to setup Stripe in your projects and start getting payments
-@better_auth: My favorite auth library now.
-@clerk or @WorkOS if you're lazy and want a fast auth with so cool features out of the box that you don't want to manage yourself
-@polar_sh: Since Stripe acquired lemonsqueezy and killed it, this is the best alternative in the market now
-@tembo: Your way to go for code review, the team is cooking, I've talked to @connorpaton about something and found out they are ahead
-@Sentry: This is a must for every project, to catch bugs and fix them, maybe be smart and use it with @tembo
-@appwrite: Another cool backend framework and ecosystem to build your full-stack apps
-@firecrawl: The best and fastest scrapper out there, and I really bet o it.
-@ExaAILabs: Best search API for agents and modern apps
-@expo: My way to go for mobile apps, I used it and from day one, I really understood 90% of the framework, Btw, I have an app on Google play and Apple store.
-@mintlify: I will never build a docs and there's mintlify.
Please share yours in the comments if I missed it, I would like to learn new stuff 👇
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