Editorial illustration of a digital coworker operating across browser, communications, memory, and payment layers

Agent-First Tools Are Becoming a Real Software Category

Agent-first tools are starting to look like a real software category. The common pattern is simple: products rebuilt around autonomous software users instead of humans. Email, phone numbers, browsers, memory, payments, APIs, and trust layers are all being redesigned around machine operators.

March 26, 2026 · 11 min · 2178 words · Marco