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What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents

CIO explores how enterprise AX involves doing foundational work to integrate agentic AI with existing systems, featuring Biilmann's four principles for good AX and the emerging field of context engineering with MCP, skills, and context files.

A comprehensive guide to implementing llms.txt for API documentation, making your docs discoverable and consumable by AI agents and coding assistants through clean, structured markdown.

One Year of AX

Mathias Biilmann reflects on the first year since coining AX (Agent Experience), sharing how the term went from an internal rallying cry at Netlify to being adopted by BVP, Sequoia Capital, and the first AX job postings appearing. He outlines four key areas of AX: Access, Context, Tools, and Orchestration.

Predictions for 2026: 5 Topics

Mathias Biilmann predicts 2026 will bring broad adoption of truly autonomous agents, a growing Agent Skills ecosystem, AX becoming a concern beyond dev tools, the ceiling breaking for non-coder builders, and code review workflows fundamentally changing.

Google Cloud's Office of the CTO reflects on how the conversation around AI fundamentally shifted from capability to trust in 2025, and what enterprises learned about deploying agents responsibly.

Thoughtworks examines how MCP has arguably brought agentic AI into the mainstream much faster than the industry expected by making it easier for developers to connect agents to many different sources of data.

After the Website: Navigating the Agent-First Web

NEXT25 conference panel in Hamburg explores what comes after the website: a fundamental shift from designing for humans to designing for agent experience, where an invisible web for agents is rapidly taking shape alongside the visible web for humans.

Agent Experience Is the New Developer Experience

Sean Roberts, VP of Applied AI at Netlify, explains why AX is an extension of DX on the AI Native Dev podcast, covering why hallucinations are what inference looks like when context is missing, why knowledge graphs matter for large codebases, and using feedback loops to help agents learn from real deployments.

"Anyone Can Code Now" - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Matt Biilmann reveals to a16z's Martin Casado how Netlify's daily signups surged to 16,000 (five times the prior rate) with 96% coming not from AI coding tools but everyday people building React apps through ChatGPT, expanding the addressable market from 17M developers to 3B people.

Matt Biilmann on Mastering Agentic Experience

ShiftMag interviews Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann about the AX movement, how the term has caught on with both AI coding agents and developer tool providers, and why services that don't work well with agents will start getting routed around.

Matt Biilmann on AI, Agents & the Future of Web Dev

On the Hangar DX podcast, Biilmann unpacks the evolution from UX to DX to AX, the rise of 'vibe coders' who aren't traditional developers but are shipping products, and why we are just entering the decade of agents, where the addressable market exploded from 17M developers to 3B people.

AX Practices: How Developers Build for AI Agents Today

Sean Roberts (Netlify's head of AX Architecture) and Kent C. Dodds walk through core AX ideas, real-world examples, and lessons learned from early adopters in this kickoff session of Netlify's AX Discovery Series.

Deloitte's comprehensive guide to enterprise adoption of agentic AI, exploring how organizations can implement AI agents through phased approaches while managing costs, workforce considerations, and risks.

Netlify CEO Pitches 'Agent Experience' as Next Frontier in Product Design

HackerNoon coverage of Biilmann's case for AX as the next evolution after UX and DX, exploring how designing for AI agents as first-class users is becoming essential for modern product development.

AX - Is it Agent or Agentic?

Mathias Biilmann clarifies why he chose 'Agent Experience' over 'Agentic Experience' when coining AX. Just as we say User Experience and Developer Experience, not 'Useric' or 'Developerish', Agent Experience is the clearest way to describe the practice of building great software for agents.

Multi-agent AI systems require experiences that clearly communicate confidence, transparency, and control. The World Economic Forum explores how design must balance speed, transparency, and trust to turn smart tools into collaborative teammates.

AI Pair Programming: Enhancing Developer Experience through Agent Experience (AX)

Netlify explores how AX improves AI pair programming, showing how without good context, agents generate deprecated code patterns, but with official context files, they produce modern, typesafe code that creates a more reliable development experience.

Salesforce explores how UX design is undergoing its biggest transformation since the internet, with designers evolving from interface architects to experience orchestrators and system builders for agentic experiences.

Agent Experience (AX): The AI-First Manifesto

Profound explores AX as a paradigm shift where AI agents are the primary interface between users and brands, arguing that AX will become the most important function of marketing as answer engines and AI agents reshape the entire digital landscape.

AX is the Only Experience That Matters (WeAreDevelopers Talk)

Ivan Burazin's WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 talk in Berlin argues that if agents can't use your product, no one will, showing how current tools break the moment you remove a human from the loop and presenting Daytona's agent-native infrastructure as the solution.

Agent Experience Is the Only Experience That Matters

Ivan Burazin argues that as AI agents increasingly write and execute code independently, tools must shift from optimizing Developer Experience (DX) to Agent Experience (AX) - designing for autonomous agent operation rather than human interaction. He presents Daytona's agent-native infrastructure that provides serverless, stateful runtimes allowing agents to spin up environments in 90ms and operate completely autonomously without human intervention.

Introducing: AX (Agent Experience) - SEO Week 2025

James Cadwallader (Profound CEO) explores how AI agents are fundamentally reshaping the digital landscape in one of the biggest platform changes in internet history, where humans no longer browse websites directly and AX will become the most important function of marketing.

AX in Practice: Real-World Examples from Netlify and the Industry

Mathias Biilmann, Netlify CEO, breaks down real-world application of AX principles in the wild from Netlify itself and other industry leaders.

AI Agents and the Web: How Developers Can Build Smarter with Agent Experience (AX)

Netlify webinar featuring Sean Roberts, Zeno Rocha (Resend), and Ron Bronson (18F) diving into AX principles, their drivers, and what applying them really looks like. Walk away with a clearer sense of how AX works and where to start.

A comprehensive comparison of the emerging standards that allow AI agents to interact with APIs, including MCP, A2A, agents.json, llms.txt, Arazzo, and more. Some compete, but many are complementary.

The UX Design Institute explores how designers can adapt their skillsets for the age of AI agents, from designing dual-channel experiences for both humans and agents, to the new role of experience orchestrators.

Agent Week 2025: Making It Easier to Go from Prompt to Production

Netlify launches Agent Week: a week dedicated to making building and deploying with AI agents efficient and effective, rethinking the platform through the lens of AX so agents can deploy, test, and run fullstack applications with minimal config.

A practical guide to designing for AI agents, covering how to optimize APIs, documentation, and developer tools so that AI-powered agents can discover, understand, and integrate with your services effectively.

AX: Agent Experience

Josh Bleecher Snyder of sketch.dev shares a practical engineering take on AX, from system prompts and tool design to communication design and auto-installing common tools for agents, arguing that AX is easier than UX in some ways because you have captive users you can watch any time.

How to Create Better UX with AI Agent Experience (AX)

Sean Roberts (Netlify) joins the ConTejas Code podcast for a deep dive into Agent Experience, exploring the human web vs. agent web, contextual alignment protocols like MCP, standards like llms.txt and agents.json, and the challenges of authentication in an agentic world.

The New Frontier in AI Development: Why Agent Experience Matters

Coverage of Mathias Biilmann's AI Native DevCon keynote where he introduced AX as a new frontier for product design, sharing how Netlify's custom GPT drove over 10,000 sites created daily from coding agents and why 'LLMs work much better with XML than with JSON.'

Securing Your APIs With Progressive Scoping

To secure APIs for the users of tomorrow—both human and machine we have to minimize the scope of access for every action taken. Where security meets AX practices.

Video: Key Tenets of Agentic Identity Infrastructure

Authentication and access control are critical to making AI agents secure, scalable, and production-ready. Learn how identity infrastructure can help organizations provide a balanced user, developer, and agent experience.

Diving Into the MCP Authorization Specification

MCPs unlock a lot of amazing opportunities for agents to interact with services and APIs. The Authorization component of MCPs is a key piece of this puzzle.

Microsoft Design shares a set of design principles specifically focused on Agent UX: a framework for how to think about and build individual agents and multi-agent systems with human-centric principles.

Google introduces an open protocol enabling communication and interoperability between AI agents built on different frameworks by different vendors. A2A complements MCP by standardizing agent-to-agent communication alongside agent-to-tool interactions.

Simplicity and Agentic Experience (AX)

Traditional interfaces have often functioned as obstacle courses, requiring users to navigate complex pathways to achieve their goals. The need for simplicity increases as agent experience becomes more prevalent.

Seven actionable principles for succeeding in a world where AI agents increasingly evaluate, select, and integrate with services on behalf of human customers, from designing for agent consumption to establishing trust through consistent performance.

a16z Interview: Web Pioneering and AX

Netlify's recap of Martin Casado sitting down with Matt Biilmann for a deep discussion on the evolution of the modern web, the future of AI for the web, and Netlify's impact on making the AI-powered open web happen.

Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era

Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann joins a16z General Partner Martin Casado to explore how AI is reshaping web development through Agent Experience (AX): a new paradigm where AI agents are active participants in development, shaping both the creative process and infrastructure.

Webinar: The Next Frontier in AI Development: Why Agent Experience (AX) Matters

See Dana Lawson (CTO of Netlify),Matt Biilmann (CEO of Netlify), Eric Simons (CEO of Stackblitz), Kenneth Auchenberg (partner at AlleyCorp) discuss the AX, why it matters, and the realized impact of focusing on it.

It’s an AI Agent world. Is ‘Agent Experience’ the secret weapon for controlling the chaos?

Netlify’s founder and CEO Matt Billman thinks so. He tells us why it’s the catalyst for moving past shallow AI features and consciously designing the “AX” of products – so we can harness the exponential power of seamlessly collaborating with agents.

Weaviate Podcast #116: Agent Experience

Matt Biilmann joins Weaviate's Sebastian Witalec and Charles Pierse to explore how to design software for both human users and AI agents, covering documentation for LLMs, API design for agents, llms.txt, JSON tool definitions, agent-to-agent communication, and breaking changes.

AI Go-To-Market: Why Agents Are Your Newest Path to Adoption

Companies that build APIs are using AI agents like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, and more to bring their products to market faster.

Give it in plain text: Making your content AI-Ready

Optimizing for humans AND machines: How we made Sanity Learn bilingual with /llms.txt. Beyond data models, structured content now powers agent experiences.

What is AX (Agent Experience) and how to improve it

Best practices for building AI agent-friendly products.

AX, Creativity and the Human Web

Perfecting the AX of the web can help reignite the web’s creative potential and reclaim mindshare from closed platforms.

Agent-Facing Analytics

We’ll take a look at AI agents as a “new user persona” for real-time analytics databases and explore initial themes about how systems can adapt to their workloads.

Designing APIs for AI: The Need for New Standards

API design has been targeted at making great DX and system design, but is it enough for AX?

How AI agents are reshaping design platforms: What designers and PMs need to know about AX

Discover how AI agents are reshaping design platforms through Agent Experience (AX), enabling automation, collaboration, and innovation for designers and product managers.

The Age of Agent Experience

It’s time to start building for a new persona: the autonomous agent. Instead of just designing experiences for human users, we need to think carefully about how machines will access data and perform actions securely, with transparency and user consent.

Beyond DX: Developers Must Now Learn Agent Experience (AX)

Amid the rise of agentic IDEs like Bolt, Windsurf and others, Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann says we need a new design pattern: Agent Experience.

Every Website Needs to be Redesigned (Again) for Agent Experience (AX)

Redesigning the internet for User Experience was hard enough - but humans aren’t the only users of the internet anymore. We may need to redesign every website, app, and service for the Consumer AI Assistants of 2030… I understand how this sounds like an overexaggeration, but it isn’t.

AX, DX, UX - Thoughts on Agent Experience

Jim Nielsen offers a critical perspective on AX, warning that while AX in theory builds great stuff for agents so people use products more efficiently, in practice time and resources are finite, and AX may end up trumping UX just as DX sometimes has. His recommended priority: UX over AX over DX.

Service Design for AI: Why Human Experience (HX) Matters

As AI reshapes how we interact with systems and each other, we need to expand our understanding of what’s at stake.

Great agent experience starts with great collaboration

Agent-compatible collaborative apps will have a huge competitive advantage. In this post, I break down why great agent experience (AX) starts with great collaborative products.

Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters

Mathias Biilmann, Netlify CEO, coins the term AX and shares core concepts for the industry to focus on. "As builders, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI Agents will have as the user of a product or platform."

APIs for AI: Have We Failed?

With the rise of AI agents, APIs have become bottlenecks for autonomy of agents. Does that mean we've failed as API builders?

As users delegate tasks to agents, their experience of interacting with digital services now includes this medium. This bring AX under the umbrella of considerations for a service's UX.

In order for website and agents to coexist within a mutually beneficial web, we have to provide a different view of the web with optimal AX and UX without the negative impacts on websites today.

Learn about what AX is and why it's so important.

Guidelines for designing digital services to be easy to use by agents and meet the needs of end users that delegate work to them.

Learn about what AX is and why it's so important.

A comprehensive guide to implementing Agent Experience principles in your organization.

An introduction to the Model Context Protocol, what it does, why it matters for AX, and how it fits into the broader agent experience solution space.

An introduction to Agent Skills, what they are, why they matter for AX, and how they fit into the broader agent experience solution space.

An introduction to AGENTS.md, the open format for guiding AI coding agents, and how it fits into the broader agent experience solution space.

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