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50 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 2 Sep \ on: AI Agents Are Predicted to Increase the Software Market and Outstrip SaaS AI
Not really a fan of Goldman, but it's not much of a stretch that they're right about a 50/50 future split. If I were 15 years younger I'd be helping businesses run their own agents.
Yep, and honestly this has been a trend before this current AI hype train. Essentially this is piping different applications/services together. Interoperability is really what is going on. Now you just don't have to write as much glue code to get services to talk to each other.
Not sure how well this will pan out due to the actual costs of running these AI services vs. what they are currently charging but technically it makes sense.
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But AI agents sounds a lot more sexy.
For decades we devs have been piping data all over the place. On our operating systems, commandlines, and across the Internet. The pattern I see repeat over and over again is making things easier and more approachable. We've seen it in the world of running servers for decades. We have seen in the mobile phone market. Now we are seeing it with APIs. Its all APIs. AI can't do these things without APIs. But APIs are not sexy anymore so the marketing is all about AI. AI is important but its not the only factor.
If you zoom out you can see the patterns.
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100% plenty of AI stuff is just the old stuff, that works well, with a thin layer of AI thrown in for marketing purposes!
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Well, AI is more than hype. Its just not all of the hype and we will see how sustainable it is. I suspect it will be eventually. Agents are basically glue between systems. And they are responsive and flexible. One way to think about it is as a UI. The chatbot interface.
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So we get to burn ridiculous amounts of electricity because companies won't release a public API endpoint? 😆
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