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Ep 864: Headless Software: Why Companies Are Building Software for AI Agents, Not Humans and what it means (Start Here Series Vol 23)

aired Sep 17, 2026
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Summary

SPEAKER_00: I've been driving a car for 25 years, and it's been the same story every time I need to go somewhere.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of right, know, software, including: Even though I swear we were supposed to have flying cars by now, but whatever.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Because since the 90s, we've clicked to launch the program, we've navigated with a keyboard and mouse, we've made decisions with our own human context, and then we repeated
  2. 02So that's what we're going to be tackling today on Everyday AI the headless software, why companies are building software for AI agents, not for humans, and what it means
  3. 03So, in the last eight days alone, we've seen a seismic shift in the way that software is being made, which impacts how agents access it, which impacts how all of us humans actually
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