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Automating Developer Email with MCP and Al Agents

2025/3/21
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This chapter explores the shift from human-driven development to AI agent-driven development, focusing on the changing roles of humans and agents in creating and using software. It highlights the need to adapt product development to support this shift, prioritizing agent experience alongside developer experience.
  • Shift from human to AI agent-driven development
  • Importance of agent experience (AX)
  • Need to redesign products for agent-friendliness

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In this episode of AI + a16z,  Resend) founder and CEO Zeno Rocha sits down with a16z partner Yoko Li to discuss:

  • How generative AI — powered by agents and, now, MCP — is reshaping the email experience for developers, as well as the overall world of programming. 
  • Zeno's obsession with developer experience has evolved into designing for "agent experience" — a new frontier where LLM-powered agents are not only building products but also operating within them. 
  • How email, one of the most ubiquitous tools for developers and end users alike, is being reimagined for a future where agents send, parse, and optimize communication. 
  • What it means to build agent-friendly APIs. 
  • The emerging MCP protocol, and how AI is collapsing the creative loop for prosumers and developers alike.

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