AX is the only Experience that Matters - Ivan Burazin, Daytona

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Takeaway

Build tools for agents (Agent Experience) not for humans-with-AI — speed, API-first, agent-readable docs, and autonomy-by-default are the bar.

Summary

Ivan Burazin (Daytona) argues agents will outnumber humans 'to the power of n' — 25% of YC startups say AI writes 95% of code, 37% of latest batch build agents as the product.
Agent Experience (AX, coined by Matt Biilmann at Netlify) = how easily can agents access, understand, and autonomously operate in digital environments.
Good AX examples: Arcade (seamless auth fallback to user), Stripe-style /docs.md (also llms.txt standard), API-first design (Neon, Netlify, Supabase) — MCP is debated but APIs are bedrock.
Daytona's agent-native runtime spins up sandboxes in 27ms with preloaded headless tools (file explorer, git, LSP, terminal) so agents don't parse raw terminal output.
If your tool breaks when you remove the human, you're building for the past — design for autonomous operation.

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Original description

If you’re building devtools for humans, you’re building for the past.

Already a quarter of Y Combinator’s latest batch used AI to write 95% or more of their code. AI agents are scaling at an exponential rate and soon, they’ll outnumber human developers by orders of magnitude.

The real bottleneck isn’t intelligence. It’s tooling. Terminals, local machines, and dashboards weren’t built for agents. They make do… until they can’t.

In this talk, I’ll share how we killed the CLI at Daytona, rebuilt our infrastructure from first principles, and what it takes to build devtools that agents can actually use. Because in an agent-native future, if agents can’t use your tool, no one will.

About Ivan Burazin
Ivan Burazin co-founded Codeanywhere, the very first cloud IDE, back in 2009 where he and the team had to create everything from scratch, from the IDE itself, to the entire orchestration. Concurrently, he established Shift, the premier developer conference in Europe, which was later acquired by Infobip - a global communications cloud giant in 2021. Following the acquisition, Ivan served on the executive board of this 4,000-person company and as the Chief Developer Experience Officer, where he oversaw global developer-oriented operations.

In 2023, Ivan co-founded Daytona, a fast-growing open-source platform addressing the limitations of AI coding agents by enabling them to programmatically and securely interact with runtime environments.

Backed by $7M in funding, Daytona empowers developers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies to enable AI agents to achieve their full potential.

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