“App Store” logic assumes someone (developer) has to anticipate what you’ll want before you can do it. AI handles this directly.
Very likely the thing that disrupts “mobile”
Totally agree.
Often, you can't figure out what you need to build until you build the wrong thing and get it in front of actual users.
Good news is that it's easier than ever to get *something* built and in front of actual users.
After 6 months of watching engineers use coding agents, I found the most productive users have something in common
The best ones use what I call "Socratic mode"
Instead of just telling the agent what to do, they start with questions that force it to load the right files and actually understand the abstractions. They keep going (and correcting the agent) until they're confident both they and the agent understand the shape of the problem and the goals
The benefit here is that instead of guessing at a plan upfront, you're helping both yourself and the agent truly understand the codebase first before starting to make any changes
By the time you ask it to do something, all the context is already "built" and the path forward is clear
can’t think of any other consumer product besides the iphone that matches the openness people now show with chatgpt and other LLM apps. value is so high that hesitation just disappears even though trust isn’t there yet. while the iphone/ios have trust, but value is slipping.