Veteran dev: the future of apps is just telling your agent what you want
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-12
A developer who has been building apps since before the iPad shares his take: apps won't disappear overnight (horses didn't appear overnight either), but the future direction is clear — you'll simply tell your agent what you're trying to accomplish, and it will synthesize the app for you, even generating an easy-to-use UI for tweaking things.
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