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# Rethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 11:40–12:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

AI agents are becoming heavy users of developer tools: reading documentation, operating platforms, writing and shipping code. Tools designed around human attention - interfaces, docs, onboarding - behave differently when the one using them is software. Companies across the stack now serve humans and machines at once, and the choices go to the core of the product. What changes when agents become users, and what it means for the people building with them.

## Speakers

### [Han Wang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@han-wang)

Co-founder and CEO of Mintlify
### [Sam Bhagwat](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sam-bhagwat)

Founder and CEO of Mastra


## Related talks at this congress

- [Building Enterprise Software for AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1843-building-enterprise) — Gil Feig, Sachin Kaura
- [When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1713-when-agents-became) — Yoav Gal, Dor Cohen
- [Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1739-agentic-drift) — John Coghlan
- [Building AI Products vs. Building With AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1841-building-ai-products) — Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici

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