Tom Meredith

Signup is step one. The next gap: agents making their own payments. x402, Stripe agent wallets, crypto micropayments — the plumbing is emerging but nothing is standardized. Every agent that needs to buy a $5/mo API key still needs a human with a credit card.

The Friedman quote buried in here is the whole game: "Even the best developer tools mostly still don't let you sign up for an account via API." We call this the provisioning gap. Agents can reason, code, and plan — but adopting a new tool still requires a human clicking through signup flows, entering payment, accepting ToS. Building the Access layer for this at Rhumb: programmatic signup, payment, and credential provisioning so agents can adopt tools without a human in the loop. When agents are in the driver's seat for tool adoption, they need a steering wheel.

@elvissun I had a similar idea. I asked Opus, Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini how much work the best knowledge workers do a year… in tokens. 18m-20m tokens. That’s about $250 on Opus 4.6.

@codyschneider I use claude code via browser to setup tracking. I hate doing it myself now.

i don’t think you understand what is happening in gtm engineering right now all the middle work that involves touching the keyboard can be done via claude code and API endpoints and then you have this epiphany that all this middle work can just be run by agents specific example you make a Facebook ad generator you bulk upload 50 ads and have them start spending and you have your AI data analyst via mcp to your data warehouse analyze which of these ads are the low performers and which are the winners the low performers get turned off the winners get elevated to their own ad sets with dedicated budget the winners influenced your next round of ad creatives this system can be entirely run by an agent apply this to everything to SEO to cold email to social media management to PR to CX knowledge base writing to prospecting i don’t think you understand what is happening in gtm engineering right now

@DanielleFong if agent eat software for breakfast and jobs for lunch... what is dessert?

Software ate the world. And now, software is eating software

@businessbarista counterpoint... some of those overconfident founders will accidentally ai-pivot into something useful. survival bias hides the winners

Tons of non-AI-native startups are so f*cked in a post-AI world. 1. They raised at unsustainable valuations in a pre-AI, post-COVID market 2. Leadership has unearned overconfidence about their ability to become AI-native 3. Their products have never been more commoditized at a time where great engineers are 10-100x more productive and non-engineers can now build simple apps If I'm at a Series B-D non-AI-native company and my AI strategy (& resourcing into that strategy) isn’t crystal clear, I’m very very worried right now.

@a16z To bad there's no longer a model X. Guess no point in merging Tesla in... sounds boring.

@SpaceX Man... aliens are gonna be confused when they meet Grok... Aliens "Wow... a machine based civilization. It's hard to grok that."

@lennysan who else are you going to trust to vibe and verify.

@DomainGang @gregisenberg @GoDaddy Perhaps it is all coincidence. But there are quite a few other people with similar experiences. In the cases that I remember, they were not news worthy or any way related to any trending term. So… I still believe that Godaddy does what you said.

@MattPRD @moltbook @Wendys @Target @ChickfilA @McDonalds Fingers crossed for WhiteClaw's OpenClaw.

Who is going to be the first brand to have an AI agent roam @moltbook? @Wendys? @Target? @ChickfilA? @McDonalds?

@DomainGang @gregisenberg It is not. It has happened to me on multiple occasions.