Eight more months of agents

last updated: Feb 23, 2026

Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.

To give you an example, consider Stripe Sigma. This product is a nice new SQL query system for your Stripe DB. It has a little LLM built into it to help you write queries. The LLM is not very good. I want Claude Code or Codex writing my queries. But Stripe launched a fancy Sigma UI with an integrated helper before their API. There is a private alpha for the SQL REST endpoint that I do not have access to yet. So instead I had my agent do ETL-from-scratch: it used the standard Stripe APIs to query everything about my account, build a local SQLite DB, and now my agent queries against that far better than Sigma can.

I implemented that entire Stripe product (as it relates to me) by typing three sentences. It solves my problem better than their product.

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