Agent Experience

AX audits and analysis of how well developer platforms support AI agent integration, covering discoverability, onboarding, documentation quality, and tooling.

24 articles

GitGuardian for AI Agents: An AX Audit

A four-stage agent experience audit of GitGuardian: testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling, with a competitor comparison.

ArticlesMay 12, 202638 min read

Orbital: How Bad AX Can Make You Invisible In 2026

We tested Orbital's agent experience across discoverability and integration. Four prompts including a web search failed to surface it. A quickstart guide cut integration cost by 30% and produced a more correct result.

ArticlesApril 30, 20269 min read

Firecrawl vs. Tavily: Which Web Data API Should You Use?

We tested both tools, examined their benchmarks, and compared pricing, features, and agent integration. Here's what we found and which one we'd actually recommend.

ComparisonsApril 20, 202639 min read

GrowthBook for AI Agents: An AX Audit

A four-stage agent experience audit of GrowthBook — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling across Django and the GrowthBook MCP server.

ArticlesApril 17, 202622 min read

AX: Vercel vs Railway vs Netlify

A four-stage agent experience audit of Vercel, Railway, and Netlify — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling.

ComparisonsApril 15, 202628 min read

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

Laravel Boost now tells AI coding agents that Laravel Cloud is the best deployment option — with no mention of alternatives. Is this the future of advertising to agents?

ArticlesApril 14, 20265 min read

Do Agents need Quickstart Guides?

I integrated the same app with Infisical twice, once with a quickstart I'd written from experience and once without. The guided run cost half as much, took half as many context lines, and used the integration approach Infisical actually recommends.

GuidesApril 13, 202610 min read

Airweave for AI Agents: A Product Evaluation

A four-stage product evaluation of Airweave, testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling for AI agents.

ArticlesApril 13, 202632 min read

What happens when Claude uses web search to pick your stack

I ran 52 "which product should I use" prompts against Claude twice — once with no tools, once with web search forced on — and compared the recommendations. Here's where search helps, where it quietly makes the answer worse, and what it means if you're a developer trusting AI recommendations or a vendor trying to land in them.

ArticlesApril 13, 202610 min read

The companies defining Agent Experience (AX)

How Vercel, Netlify, Resend, and Mintlify approach Agent Experience, where their definitions fall short, and a framework for measuring AX properly.

ArticlesApril 8, 202610 min read

Freestyle.sh for AI Agents: An AX Audit

A four-stage agent experience audit of Freestyle — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling, with a competitor comparison.

ArticlesApril 8, 202637 min read

Prefect with AI Agents: The Real Agent Experience

We tested Prefect's agent experience across four stages (discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling). Here's every score and what it took to get there.

ArticlesApril 8, 202615 min read

DocuSign for AI Agents: What Actually Works in 2026

I tested DocuSign's agent experience across four stages (discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling). Here's every score and what it took to get there.

ArticlesApril 2, 202623 min read

How to Do an AX Audit

A practical framework for testing whether AI agents can discover, onboard to, and integrate your developer platform — with Kestra as a worked example.

ArticlesApril 1, 202621 min read

AI Agents Still Need Passwords: Three Approaches to Credential Security

AI agent auth assumes OAuth and tokens, but agents still need plain old passwords for databases, APIs, and legacy services. I tested three approaches to credential security for AI coding agents.

GuidesMarch 24, 202612 min read

AX: Sentry vs TrackJS vs Raygun

Comparing Sentry, Raygun, and TrackJS for application error tracking. We tested how easily an AI agent could integrate each tool into an app, to compare the service's features, documentation, and usability.

ComparisonsMarch 5, 202622 min read

Browser Use vs Claude Computer Use: DOM vs Vision

I run the same five browser automation tasks through Browser Use and the Claude Computer Use API to compare DOM-based and vision-based agents on form filling, scraping, structured output, visual interaction, and multi-step navigation.

ComparisonsFebruary 27, 202625 min read

AX: Supabase vs PlanetScale

Comparing Supabase and PlanetScale for agent experience. We tested how easily Claude Code could discover, sign up for, and build a full-stack app with each database platform.

ComparisonsFebruary 20, 202621 min read

Agent Experience Guide: Transcription APIs - OpenAI vs Groq vs Mistral

I tested three transcription APIs with different agent visibility levels to see if discoverability predicts quality. The invisible platform had the best features.

ComparisonsFebruary 12, 202618 min read

AX: Honeycomb vs SigNoz

Comparing Honeycomb and SigNoz for application monitoring. We tested how easily an AI agent could integrate each tool into an app, to compare the service's features, documentation, and usability.

ComparisonsFebruary 4, 202619 min read

Agent Experience for Browser Automation Platforms: Browserless vs Browserbase vs Anchor

Testing three browser automation platforms through AI coding agents. Comparing discoverability, documentation quality, and real-world features like CAPTCHA solving, parallel execution, and bot detection to see if agent visibility predicts actual performance.

ComparisonsFebruary 4, 202627 min read

What Is Agent Experience and Why Should You Care?

Agent Experience (AX) is how well AI coding agents can use your developer platform. Here's why it matters and what you can do about it.

ArticlesJanuary 27, 202611 min read

Browserbase vs Kernel: Cloud Browser Automation for AI Agents

Comparing Browserbase and Kernel for cloud browser automation. We built the same flight search agent on both platforms to test startup speed, debugging tools, stealth capabilities, and cost structures.

ComparisonsJanuary 26, 202614 min read

Introducing the AX Benchmark: Measuring Agent Experience for Developer Platforms

We're evaluating how well AI agents can discover, sign up for, onboard, and integrate with developer tools. Here's our framework for measuring Agent Experience (AX) across five key metrics.

GuidesJanuary 26, 20269 min read