I always assumed that agentic AI would naturally gravitate toward APIs. Expose the right endpoints, describe them well, and let the LLM figure it out. But that's not fully true. LLMs aren’t low-level thinkers, they’re task-oriented agents and need a different interaction modality. Exposing APIs will help, but it won’t be enough!
Companies need to think in terms of MCPs (to structure tools for agent consumption) and eventually A2A (agent-to-agent) interaction models. It will take real design and effort to leverage those protocols meaningfully.
"Great products still need to work. But now they also need to work instantly."
Such a great line! Hope the new role has been going well! :)
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
I always assumed that agentic AI would naturally gravitate toward APIs. Expose the right endpoints, describe them well, and let the LLM figure it out. But that's not fully true. LLMs aren’t low-level thinkers, they’re task-oriented agents and need a different interaction modality. Exposing APIs will help, but it won’t be enough!
Companies need to think in terms of MCPs (to structure tools for agent consumption) and eventually A2A (agent-to-agent) interaction models. It will take real design and effort to leverage those protocols meaningfully.