As AI slashes software costs, what should post-platform software look like?
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-11-10
The author reflects on what software looks like after AI dramatically cut development costs: most people live in perpetual information overload, so there's latent demand for software that organizes and orchestrates our interaction with it.
But the existing platform model relies on mostly free services funded by algorithms adversarial to users' interests, and she hopes that changes. She also pushes back on the "everyone should vibecode their own to-do/budget apps" narrative: people aren't that unique, and working out UX kinks, hosting and security is still friction and cost.
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