Sr staff gardener. Led agent experience @stripe. Purveyor of small angel cheques. A/B testing my Twitter bio and you’re in the treatment group.
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John single-handedly teaching a generation of tech nerds how to shoot the shit over beers. God bless.
seems small but is huge: webpages as clean APIs for agents. the web is going to change so much, it's a very exciting time. props to Stripe for being early :)
If you wanna get into the weeds of our WebMCP integration, I went through a @stripe checkout page and tried out all the new tools
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Treasury Agents are here
Over 5,000+ users a month are already using agents to analyze your spend, understand your balances and financial data.
Next, they can act on it.
We’re opening up capabilities that let agents move money, convert currencies, and more with your approval.
Want to help us test what’s next?
docs.stripe.com/treasury/age….
Still the best startup name out there, great product too 👏👏👏
Today we're announcing @lightfld's $47M Series A led by @a16z to reimagine CRM as a world model of a business.
For agents to do customer-facing work, they need to understand how your business actually works.
Salesforce wasn't designed for this. It was built 20+ years ago for humans to update records. Layer agentic processes on top and you get low quality output, because the underlying data is incomplete and lacks the structure agents need.
@lightfld updates itself from every interaction, forming a trustworthy model of your business for people and agents. Since launching last November, 5,000+ companies have signed up - and we're ripping out legacy CRM at mature organizations with hundreds of users.
Companies on Lightfield grow faster than their competitors. It finds prospects that look like your best customers and books meetings with them. It captures commitments from every conversation and automates follow-ups. It diagnoses weaknesses in your funnel and learns from your best sellers to codify what works.
The companies of the future will run on a business world model, not a Salesforce-era database. Our mission is to put that capability in the hands of every employee, and every agent, at every company.
One thing I've learned in the last 18mo: there is insatiable appetite for arguing about mcp vs cli vs api vs website
this is the way
RIP human-centric onboarding at @clerk
All entrypoints will say ~"just tell your agent to add clerk" by the end of the week. We think we've found ways to steer agents to our CLI, where the integration success rate is highest
Will report back next week on results!
Spending my Saturday morning with the latest @WorksInProgMag, a wonderful publication
Scribbled some notes on running software teams
- users > company > team > me
- having a vision buys you space to cook
- high morale, low output trap
- being a FUD dampener
- etc
ianmccrystal.com/posts/notes…
very cool to see hyper competition playing out so clearly in AI: better models, cheaper models, open, closed, so many harness options, advantages fleeting, so much choice (and surplus) for users. dusty econ101 textbooks being vindicated in real time.
this looks v cool... agent micropayments to use APIs, fetch content, etc just seems inevitable
Introducing Cloudflare Wallets. They will allow you to store stablecoins, purchase services, and receive funds across the web. cfl.re/455An86
