https://potocki.dev/tags/ax/Recent content in Ax on Patrik PotockiHugoenWed, 29 Apr 2026 09:10:58 +0200https://potocki.dev/posts/agent-first-designing-for-mcp-cli-as-the-primary-surface/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://potocki.dev/posts/agent-first-designing-for-mcp-cli-as-the-primary-surface/<p>Most teams still design software like a human is going to click through it. They build the frontend first, treat the API as plumbing behind it, and bolt a CLI on at the end if anyone asks. That order made sense when the user was always a person.</p> <p>It doesn&rsquo;t anymore. The fastest-growing user of any non-trivial software product right now is an agent — driving it through an API, an MCP server, or a CLI. If you accept that, the priority order has to flip.</p>