AI Agents Are the New APIs: Mashery Founder’s New Company

If APIs were the connective tissue between different websites and apps during the Web 2.0 era, then AI agents are shaping up to be the same thing in the AI era. In other words, AI agents will increasingly be how you access and use data from various sources around the internet. APIs aren’t going away, but AI agents have stolen their thunder.

Managing AI agents is the new API management — that’s essentially the bet that Oren Michels, CEO of new AI company Barndoor, is making. Michels was previously founder of Mashery, an API management…