Ben Thompson in Apps, Agents, and Aggregation:

· Bits and Bobs 10/5/26
    • "pre-built UI — write once, run everywhere, for everyone — is dead"
    • "I framed my new Muse-built Recipe Box app as number 690 on my phone.
    • In fact, however, it represents the infinite app: the agent of my choosing can create any app that I want on command, even if that app is only for me."
    • "What is happening with agents is that the ability to do stuff is becoming abundant; what is scarce is volition.
    • The problem to be solved is not discovery, but rather inspiration; the companies who solve inspiration will gain power over every entity that has things that need to be done.
    • Once the user is focused on solving a problem, every app and service required to do so is abstracted away into an implementation detail, mere suppliers facing the fate of publications under Aggregators, scrapping for crumbs from the Agent, the ultimate gatekeeper of not just user demand, but desire."
    • Agents are the apotheosis of aggregation.
    • Note that software as we know it is dead.
    • We're still going through the motions as though software still creates durable valuable like it did in the before times.
    • But the industry is like Wile E Coyote suspended over the cliff.
    • No matter how fast you flail your arms, you won't fly.

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