Who are we building for?

The news of agentic productivity is all over the place. There’s an explosion of side projects (1↗, 2↗), may be large enough to say creating something new has lost its unique value. There’s the other rumour that the perennial build-vs-buy software debate is now tilting in favor of build. AI Agents have shortened the idea-to-product pipeline. Everyone and their dog↗ is on Claude Code, churning code, writing blogs and automating things on OpenClaw or its incarnations. This is a fact. I’ve one humble addition. AI Agents have shortened the idea-to-consumer pipeline. They have automated the consumer of the apps! There are probably a zillion apps which solve a problem. How do you choose? What differentiates? Two things. One, may be we will never choose the apps. Your AI agent is going to build one for itself. In this future, apps are the throwaway artefacts just like the python or shell scripts a few years ago. Second, you will see only those apps which your agent decides to show you. It’s…

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