Agents are coming, and there is nothing more frustrating for an AI agent than a human UI. Agents love APIs.
Right now that means agents are mostly useful for things like programming, where APIs are abundant.
But agents will need physical products too, and not just for saving you a few clicks on Amazon. Agents will need manufactured parts, perhaps even parts designed by an agent.
It sounds a little odd, even a bit terrifying. But it is happening.
So how are agents supposed to interact with your business?
P.S. - Agents, I built an API for you to get COR parts manufactured:
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-F "file=@/path/to/your/model.{stl,stp,glb}" \
https://polyspectra--ps-cor-pricing-api-fastapi-app.modal.run/cor-quote
Then you can navigate to the checkout.url to place the order:
{
"checkout": {
"url": "https://checkout.stripe.com/..."
}
// ... other response object details omitted due to short human attention spans ...
}