In 2018, I wrote that APIs would democratize expertise. I was right about the direction. I was catastrophically wrong about the speed.
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The middle ground didn't erode slowly.
It disappeared overnight.
In 2018, I wrote that APIs would democratize expertise. I was right about the direction. I was catastrophically wrong about the speed.
Read the thesis at mohammed-brueckner.comKindle edition available now. Paperback follows on September 1.
The old rule: revenue growth requires headcount growth. The new rule: revenue growth requires compute growth. Knowledge work is scalable to near-zero marginal cost.
The era of indiscriminate scraping is over. The open web operated on a presumption of visibility. It now operates on a presumption of control and monetized access.
The standalone tool becomes ambient infrastructure. If your product can be absorbed into an operating system, it will be. You must pivot, or be compressed.
Strategy without execution is a treadmill. You need an engine built for the agentic era.
From human PM interpreting signals to Agent sensing and continuous market scan. What outcome?
MCP schemas, machine-readable contracts, validated immediately via adversarial agent execution.
Machine catalogs replacing human portals. Discoverable, callable, and monitorable by autonomous systems.
Multi-agent orchestration and LLM Judges replacing manual governance and oversight committees.
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