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The same principles that make developer experience good — self-provisioning infrastructure defined in code rather than YAML, with fast feedback loops — apply equally to agent experience, since an agent benefits even more than a human from not having to parse hundreds of untyped Kubernetes config files.

Modal has shifted its SDK team's focus from developer experience (DX) to agent experience (AX), arguing agents need the same self-provisioning, decorator-based infrastructure and fast feedback loops that made Modal appealing to human developers. ✦ AI generated

Akshat Bubna · Latent Space · 2026-07-08 · original ↗

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“How much of do you think still stays the same today? Like if you were to build something today, DevX very important, but I feel like, a lot of this has been changed with just hook it up to an agent, have Claude Code, have Codex implement a tool. there's very agent native primitives that are different than if I'm doing this myself, right?”

We've changed our SDK team to think about agent experience instead of, developer experience and we think that the same benefits that apply for DX also apply for AX, which is why would you have an agent read through hundreds of Kubernetes files and like write YAML that's not even typed when it can make a couple of changes in a decorator and it gets this self-provisioning runtime of, being able to see its changes live in action?

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6:21Modal’s AI cloud primitives

▦ Modal✳ agent experience✳ Kubernetes
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