Software’s been the hallway between wanting a thing and getting it. Agents shrink the hallway. Generic apps with no special data are on notice.
The story
*Patterns making it sound AI-ish:*
– Too tidy: claim, example, list, caveat, CTA. Feels pre-planned.
– Repeated abstract words: “workflow,” “outcome,” “middle layer.”
– Lists read like investor-slide soup: project trackers, form builders, CRMs.
– The caveat paragraph sounds defensive, like it’s trying to pre-answer every objection.
– The ending turns salesy with “free tool” and “heavy lifting.”
🟢 Software is about to get demoted
I’m gonna say the feather-ruffling part first: a lot of software people sell is getting squeezed. Not because a shinier app shows up with nicer buttons. Because the buttons stop being the point.
Software has mostly been the little hallway between wanting a thing and getting a thing. Open the app. Click the tiny boxes. Feed the workflow goblin. Get the result. Yay, civilization.
Agents shrink the hallway. A person says, “Find the weird expenses from last month.” The agent goes and does it. The spreadsheet didn’t fail. It got skipped.
The exposed stuff is the same-as-everyone software with no special data hiding in the basement: project trackers, form builders, internal dashboards, generic CRMs. For years, the moat was, “Building this is hard.” Cute moat. AI coding helpers are turning it into a puddle with opinions.
What survives? Products people use because everyone else is already there. Products with data nobody else has. Products protected by rules, contracts, and paperwork goblins. Everything else is on notice.
I’m not saying every app vanishes by Tuesday at 3:14 p.m. Plumbing stays. Big companies will keep stuffing AI into their apps, because of course they will. For a while, plenty of teams will use agents *and* keep clicking around like anxious raccoons.
The part under threat is the ritual: log in, hunt tabs, manage seats, click until the work confesses. Agents don’t care about the ritual. They care about the result.
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