How will our apps change in the future?

AI eats software that ate the world

We used to have this saying that software eats the world.

And today, apps do run the world.

Hungry? There’s an app for food.

Need a ride? There’s an app for transport.

Bored? Come into a beautiful app that connects you with your friends.

Or the other beautiful app that allows you to chain smoke short videos.

Today’s tech ecosystem is built by and dominated by apps, but as AI agents come online, will we see more or less of them? Or will most things run in the background?

With recent announcements, it seems that as AI eats away at the app layer, their first stop is Ecommerce.