- The end of the apps era is coming, the question is just when
- Everyone is integrating AI into their apps but the best UX comes from AI across apps, and consistent interfaces
- It’s like how books standardized over time. That’s what we want compute to do as well.
- People are saying agents, not apps, but there’s work to be done to make that come true, and risks to entrenched businesses.
- Unbunding will happen, it’ll be painful for some and an opportunity for others.
- I can achieve so much more through plumbing together scripts.
- That’s still annoying and I wish apps just exposed a consistent API
- We already had a spec for this in REST
- The problem is that it’s against business interests to be a replacable API
- But over time being honest will win out
- Posthog > Amplitude for example
- You will still get data network effects of scale as a good business and actor
- That can be enough now
The End of the Apps Era
January 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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