people · May 18, 2026
Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann Outlines Agent Experience as New North Star Replacing Developer Experience
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Matt Biilmann, Netlify CEO and co-founder, spoke on May 12, 2026, about declaring Agent Experience (AX) the new North Star in January 2025, resulting in over 10x daily signups and around 500x daily new paying customers. Netlify launched Agent Runners Spec in 2026 for CLI-based agents like Claude Code with sandboxing and deploy preview integration, plus a new "Start from Agent Runners" flow for prompting projects directly on the platform. The addressable audience expanded from 17 million professional JavaScript developers to 3 billion technically literate people, with partnerships including Bolt, Lovable, and Devin for agent-generated deployments.
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