The way I see it is AI collapses hierarchy. Abstraction layers will become more flat both in software and in society. Because ultimately software and layers of heirarchy in society exists to serve a function. But now those functions are being replaced.

Imagine this you used to need a library for common things in your software project. Even if you just need one function but because it was easier to just import a library that would have been the standard practice. But now the AI will just go “I can just implement that thing you need in 10 lines”. You used to need things like react native or flutter if you wanted to build cross platform apps. Now not anymore you just need to tell the LLM and it does it in both, and you get better results too.

In society we also had all these layers of abstractions and hierarchies that we used to need but will become more and more irrelevant collapsing the hierarchy.

There is a saying “as above so below, as below so above” I think this applies here. It will propagate all through our social construct, software, society.

I am honestly _astonished_ that the current crop of agents are not all written natively for every platform.

I tried porting a moderately complex workout app that I’ve built over years (and which includes a whole agentic loop) from web to iOS native. It took me a couple of evenings.

There is now no excuse to not offer a native experience for every supported platform when you are a bigger company.

Make one of the platforms using good coding practices. Vibe code the others from the source using a proper test battery.

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