PLG Broke the Day Your User Became an Agent
Product-led growth assumed free users were cheap to serve. AI agents just destroyed that assumption. Here's the math, the strategic fallout, and what developer tool companies should build instead.
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Strategies, tools, and tactics for marketing to developers. Updated every 1-2 weeks.
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Security posture, credibility, trust signals, and AI-native DevEx risk.
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Developer marketing strategy, PMM systems, onboarding, and growth architecture.
Product-led growth assumed free users were cheap to serve. AI agents just destroyed that assumption. Here's the math, the strategic fallout, and what developer tool companies should build instead.
Terminal Use, Ghostd, SiClaw, Agent-Sandbox.nix — a new infrastructure layer is forming around AI agents. This is the picks-and-shovels play for the agent gold rush, and it's splitting developer tooling into 'tools for humans' and 'tools for agents.'
Anthropic's 2026 agentic coding report identifies 8 trends reshaping how developers work. Every one of them changes how you should market developer tools.
The PLG playbook assumed your user was human. In 2026, your fastest-growing user segment might be an AI agent calling your API. Here's how to rethink activation, pricing, and success metrics.