Agent apps should expose a skill surface, then crystallize it into code

burny_tech · x · 2026-08-04

The post argues that an agent app should expose a skill surface: everything the app still cannot do without intelligence.
That surface should evolve over time toward global consistency, then be re-abstracted, refactored, and compressed as real usage and human direction reveal better representations.
Skills should be turned into code whenever possible, but only after the right abstractions are discovered.
The core idea: application building is a cycle from malleability to crystallization—constraints sharpen the intelligence, and intelligence should be shaped to the problem.

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