The folks over at Every published this excellent guide to a new paradigm for software, using what they call “agent-native architecture.”
In short the idea is that your mental model for thinking about what you’re building shouldn’t be focused only on user interaction, but anything you build should be usable by an agent, too.
So software should now be built around concepts like composability, reusable, callable primitives, and emergence. Sometimes an AI can find uses and things your product can do (and that users want to do) that you didn’t plan for. Thinking agent-native will have you building and prioritizing things with a different architecture in mind.
When we can design software around users setting goals and having agents pursue them, we end up with something much different than thinking only in database schemas and CRUD.