AX is the Only Experience that Matters - Building Developer Tools for AI Agents

Explore how to build developer tools for an AI-agent dominated future in this 25-minute conference talk from WeAreDevelopers. Learn why traditional development tools like terminals, local machines, and dashboards are inadequate for AI agents that are rapidly scaling and will soon outnumber human developers by orders of magnitude. Discover how Daytona eliminated their CLI and rebuilt their infrastructure from first principles to create truly agent-native development tools. Understand the fundamental shift from human-centered to agent-centered design, examine what defines effective AI agents, and explore the key principles for building tools that agents can actually use. Delve into agent-native runtimes, new agent primitives, and see real-world results from companies that have successfully implemented these approaches. Gain insights into why agent experience (AX) is becoming the critical factor that determines whether development tools will remain relevant as AI agents become the primary users of developer infrastructure.