This new "agent era" reminds us of the stickiness & value of existing systems of record, complex UI/UX notwithstanding. Customers get fast outcomes along with the provenance of the record underneath -- business teams get speed, compliance gets its audit trail. Why vibecode new software when agents work with what you already have... See it firsthand in a bunch of our fastest growing companies: @linear is accelerating as the record behind all work-in-process software development. Everyone builds more software -- agents read from and write to Linear's source of truth. @useagave agents operate across the ERP stack (Oracle, Sage, ViewPoint, Autodesk) that sits behind critical real world projects No one rips out years of cost codes/project history ... but they gladly welcome our agents to operate atop what they have. (FYI - hiring!) AskFelicity.ai is growing fast as the post-RPA solution for brittle, complex workflows across healthcare, HR, compliance, insurance, etc. -- things with low error tolerance. We see negligible rip-and-replace from customers...just a deep need to operate what they have better and more deterministically. @usekernel, @modal etc. are all growing so quickly offering the core primitive (VMs/environments) for agents and software to interact. Maybeeeee all this software sticks around after all....

Agents can replace entire application stacks, but in many industries they're forced to be guests in existing systems. The @useagave team spent years reasoning about legacy application ERP and financial software -- the data models, the integration paths. Now their agents power the operations of some of the most critical commercial and infrastructure projects in the country. Growing like a (ahem) weed, profitable. And an incredible, hard-to-replicate moat.