By skyforbes 
Here’s Why AgentKit Kills the Middleman
A single update just vaporized an entire swath of startups. Zapier, Make, n8n. All the automation glue tools you once trusted, got a black swan-sized threat when OpenAI dropped AgentKit. Overnight, the promise of drag-and-drop agent creation turned from a clever thought exercise into a working, production-grade system. The era of stitching APIs by hand feels suddenly archaic.
Yes, I’m claiming that ChatGPT just made startups obsolete. Or, at least, drastically reshaped which ones survive. My opinion, of course!
The timing is uncanny. We’ve long lived in an era of “no-code” and “low-code” optimism. Anyone can build your integration, pipeline, or workflow without touching lines of code. Tools like Zapier, Integromat (now Make), and n8n democratized automating tasks. They bridged silos, mapped data flows, and let you chain triggers and actions across apps. But they were never built for the era of autonomous, agentic AI. They lacked the reasoning layers, versioning, agent orchestration, and robustness needed for real-world agents.
Meanwhile, AI exploded. The shift from static integrations to reasoning agents, systems that decide, plan, self-correct, was always inevitable. But until now, building an…