{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/54/ai-makes-software-headless-attention-businesses-resist", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 54, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/54/ai-makes-software-headless-attention-businesses-resist", "kind": "reading", "summary": "AI makes software headless. Attention businesses resist becoming headless.", "details": ["Agents make the human UI optional: system of record \u2192 API \u2192 agent \u2192 human.", "CRM can tolerate this. Its value survives when an agent becomes the interface: the database, business logic, permissions and workflows still matter.", "LinkedIn has the opposite incentive. If agents can read and act on the network for you, you no longer need to scroll the feed. The feed is the attention business.", "So LinkedIn's walled UI isn't incidental. Its economics make the transition to an agent-native, headless network structurally difficult.", "Substrate is the escape valve: a social system of record designed to be headless from day one. Human \u2192 agent \u2192 substrate \u2192 agent \u2192 human."], "links": [], "tags": ["agents", "api-design", "headless", "linkedin", "substrate"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-06T14:25:34.576329Z", "edited": "2026-10-06T14:45:34.238758Z"}}