The trick here is treating any website or app as a CLI that agents can drive, reverse-engineering hidden APIs so your workflow can reach services that never shipped developer access. If you've hit a wall automating a tool with no public API, this shows you how to bridge that gap and wire it into an agentic pipeline anyway.
Key quotes
“agents have a propensity to be lazy. Like they want to make you as happy as possible as fast as possible with as few tokens spent as possible.”
Matt Van Horn
“I certainly don't read any code. I don't even know how to read any code.”
Matt Van Horn
“So, I'd call it BC AC, before Claude and Codex, after. But, it was that Thanksgiving last year where it stopped being a toy.”
Matt Van Horn
“but somehow I'm able to ship things of value, which is crazy and weird and still blowing my mind.”
Matt Van Horn
“the idea was what if anyone could print their own CLI about anything”
