@levelsio: I am so confused why people don't understand this, I keep getting these replies Don't you get it? Normies don't vibe c…
Neil Magnuson
@levelsio
I am so confused why people don't understand this, I keep getting these replies
Don't you get it?
Normies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video"
They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them
Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for normies
Just like building personal homepages permanently disappeared for normies when Facebook launched ~2005
A lot like this picture where functions of individual devices all got replaced with a single device
Same happening with apps now
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3.5K @levelsio
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Neil Magnuson @hustlin_heev
I hear you
my apps all solve workflow/process problems.
like the user has a job to be done, and my app speeds up the process of getting it done:
->influencer gift form: speeds up influencer gifting (find creators, DM/email them, send them a product, see if they posted, etc.)
Johannes Laslo @JohannesLaslo
Eventually you're right but the time window to get there is up for debate. looking around at the normies I know, we still have YEARS before this.
Look at photo AI as an example. We're customers with our fashion brand. My gf bought tons of credits for our brand just recently.
253 @levelsio author
"Eventually you're right but the time window to get there is up for debate. looking around at the normies I know, we still have YEARS before this."
Yes I agree with this, I think the question is the the time horizon, when it'll happen,
Renato @renatomoraesp
Except that normies don’t want to have to tell the computer what to do, or even what they want (and expect the computer to figure it out). You’re one step too far, normies literally have no idea what they want, the Algorithm injects the will into them and shows the way.
5.5K @levelsio author
Literally all the normies around me tell ChatGPT and Claude what to do all day
Ravi Chodavarapu @rchodava
Have you ever thought how ridiculous it is that your first thought today when you want to do something is what app do I open? I want to call someone .. should I use Google Meet or Whatsapp.. how silly is that?
3.7K @levelsio author
Yes so that's all going away I think
Sean Connolly @seanconnollydev
Using software to pronounce that software is dead
393 @levelsio author
Using social media to say software is dead yes, social media is community and AI can't replicate that
Jon（ジョン） @jcinjpn
The level of automation demanded by software now is orders of magnitude greater than before as a result.
3.4K @levelsio author
Can you explain?
Shane Farkas @shanefarkas
That will be the case eventually, but right now most normies are still using software the way they always have and all they know about AI is that they use ChatGPT instead of Google sometimes.
Antonio Reche @MrReche
My father, a very very non technical person, 60+ years old, called me the other day asking which AI is better to organize his job stuff. He told me he had tested Claude and was quite good, but wanted to know if there might be others better. He just prompted "do this x thing".
Nabendu Biswas @nabendu82
Totally agree normal people don't vibe code, just like my wife who is a teacher. But they don't even know when they start using technology. Like she started using chatgpt for her school slides and don't even realiaze
Marc Köhlbrugge @marckohlbrugge
People conflate two separate ideas:
1) AI makes it easier to build your own software (cancel ScrapingBee and vibe code your own scraper)
2) AI makes software obsolete (you don’t need a booking site, you book directly through ChatGPT)
The latter is a compelling idea, but mostly
Marcell Almeida 👋 @almeidamarcell
Exactly - this image helps understand that.
Ryan @ryantalks1024
I’m not saying that won’t happen but what’s hard to predict are the full consequences of something like this
It could create a new industry for all we know
Dario Amodei is going to say their thing will take over the planet, it’s a natural thing to think
I’m just saying it
Colin @Colin_GPT
I dont understand how someone couldn’t get that…bless their hearts.
Filip Gadziński @gadzinski_
I wonder what will be the final form, the ultimate device
Juan Germano @thejuangermano
nice pic but absolutely everything on the left photo is still used today except for the fax machine maybe 😂
Brendan Tully @brendantully00
But we circle back round here, normies pay people to do this stuff. They don’t want these things done not do them - eg they tell their accountant to do the bookkeeping. Dishwasher problem is a real thing, why do people hand wash dishes when dishwasher is 10x faster cheaper better
Jacob Eiting @jeiting
Your point is right but the photo is stupid. The fax machine and clock are the only thing you won’t find in most houses in 2026. Computers have not replaced glue or sun glasses
Frans Ekman @Frans81
I did not know macbooks replaces scissors. But now I found where they were located on my own macbook.
Sr Carlos ²³²U @CJavierSaldana
🚚 📦 ✈️🎸🎧🎙💾🕸️ @wolosowski
Those are like, tech forward normies though. Regular normies are still using it as google and a therapist and an email editor, easy since it’s built in now.
Mike Frost @itsmikefrost
Prediction. There is no superintelligence just high compute/high effort models. These will go away as models just become tools. Only cheap models survive and all this shitfluff will go away.
xadius @xxadius
I think this is definitely true to some extent but I actually dont think software will just disappear. I do think people will at some point be able to do almost anything just directly interfacing with AI. But I dont think people will want to. I think people will still enjoy the -
Nick O’Neill @chooserich
There are some fundamental barriers in this process currently but it will be flushed out in the next 12 months or so.
That said, for many people, the apps will generally be good enough. It's like the personal publishing era but now for apps.
📈Nat Serrano @natserran0
2027 the laptop will disappear.
2036 the little screen will dissapear
A watch or airpods with whisper will remain
God created the reality speaking after all
Jamie Street @ItsJamieSt
So what’s the play now as an indie dev?
tomas @_tomas_dev
i understand what you mean but i don’t believe we’re anywhere close to it tbh
statements from Dario etc can be basically ignored, of course he’s saying this, it’s in his best interest
Nick Dobos @NickADobos
Simple mistake!
People don’t understand “vibecode your own apps” doesn’t mean you end up with an actual app. They don’t get that the format of what is an “app” is fundamentally changing
Even harder, Level 2, is convincing people this will also happen for games & entertainment
Dave Sobell @davidsobell
I think you're correct about many types of apps. What do you make of my point here? Am I completely off?
Michael Topo @MichaelTopo
I have to say you keep having realest takes on here consistently.
It’s hard to describe but there is cerain European straight talk.
Ren @agua90era
Real normies still have their desks like the 1980 one, they just changed the computer for a laptop🤪
TMLutas @TMLutas
The normies will want a sales agent to sell their side gig product. They will want a teacher bot to fill in their educational voids without the embarrassment of night school.
They will essentially want staff to become well off.
JD Conley @wackie
my customers look at me with blank stares if i tell them i can write them custom software. they have no idea what that means. but they understand "make me a website that takes bookings and let me manage it from text messages"
Patrick McCorry 🐋 @stonecoldpat0
Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to conpresss a pdf below 25mb while keeping the high quality images. It did a significant better job than Adobes free compression tool via their website.
So much easier for completely tedious tasks.
Money Bunny @MoneyCrptBunny
just say what you want and AI figures out the rest now
Board @CrossGardens
This is my normie prompt: "ok what's next?" then "ok complete step one and keep going until step 5 is complete."
Eric Smith @ericsmith1302
Until the government steps in and decides to break it up because it’s becoming a monopoly
Goldy @Golldyck
nobody opens a terminal to launch a game, they just hit play
𝒟ℯ𝓇ℯ𝓀 @Conceptcowboy
all true, except the sunglasses.
unless we count the modern Meta ones. lol
CPUDOG @cpudog
Where is the iOS app for elmer's glue?
Maurice @tessiermaurice
what were personal pages? People did websites with their details about their life? interesting
Daria ✏️🌍🐰💙 @dariadroid
I guess I live in the 80s 🤭
ronanhunt.eth @RonanHunt88
Indeed literally no one cares about coding. They care about output, serious cope from the software people.
klöss @kloss_xyz
🎯
Jake @jakebmcc
Agree - it’ll disappear even moreso for the normies. The SaaS layer I’m torn on - does the user just change to be an agent instead of a human?
if so, will this just mean more use by the few applications which trend best on the various AI providers and a long tail of unused apps?
Nordin Sabli @nordinbuilds
The Facebook homepage analogy finally made it click for me.
Matthew @Matt_topher
Think this is mostly right, but so many people have the 1 or 2 softwares they work with daily, but at some level hate.
Soon models will be so powerful and you’ll be able to one shot a product and instantly have it hosted through anthropic or open AI.
When we get there we’ll
Vladyslav @vladyslav0x
Yeah exactly
Like no one needs to setup their own agents, give access to email, card etc, as it is too difficult.
normies want very simple experiences that are locked in the structure watch videos on youtube, update/see images on insta, etc.
with ai all seems to go into chat
Brad @BradleyYoungjr
Not to mention that it opens a lot of tech open to non tech literate people because they don’t have to actually operate the tech like Quickbooks themselves.
Lucas FLandre / Founder trace @LucasFlandre
the real shift is nobody will know what software they're using :)
stelloprint @stelloprint
Right but under the hood, the system delivering all the results for the end user is a coding agent with a compute environment.
This why Codex is a coding agent that hides away the shell. Claude Tag is Claude Code with a Slack UI
Business users won't need to know how things work
Travis French @TravisKFrench
..then the platforms expand from doing tasks to building small custom apps for normies. normies start thinking tool first like we do, now everything they need is in one ai platform and every app is created instantly if they need something.
Donni @DonniHonig
I have to say, this image made me sad for a moment.
Ryan Boye @ryanboye
Normies don’t want to “learn a new tool” they just want their problem to go away
They’re not excited by new features they’re drained by them
Less is more
Emon Datta @emonuxui
Apps used to organize actions. Agents could increasingly organize outcomes across many apps.
Baron Hakkinen @BaronHakkinen
Apps that charge $10/month for something you can Google or quickly ask ChatGPT about? Yes. But there are plenty of niches where apps with some kind of moat will work just fine. They’re probably not the kinds of apps you promote.
Abdul Wasey @iabdul_wasey
yep. code becomes the implementation detail behind an intent box.
atomirex @atomirex
So will a market appear for "apps for AI" that provide skills that efficiently implement functionality that enables AIs to perform tasks for normies? Or will the AIs always respond by reinventing the wheel every time?
Dylan Heagy @dylan_heagy
Are you saying the interface will change to be just bots or that the bots will eventually replace all software completely? You still need the system of record.
David Sterry @weex
The turning point here will be when iOS and Android offer to build custom apps you can run locally. Trying Omarchy to see if the malleable computer stands up to the hype. I still need to think about one agent vs. many which is probably a sign that it's still niche.
Tom Mann @TomasMann1878
Make it simple
Alex Iordache @alexii_9
yeah they want the result not a terminal session
tensorides @tensorides
That’s exactly right. The -only- interface required to do -anything- will be intent. (Voice, chat, drawings etc.)
Fernando Palacios @FernandoPs26
UI disappears, workflow don’t
User may never open the saas, but something still has make the process
Rich Chetwynd @richchetwynd
Agree but you are very focussed on the consumer level so likely dont see the shift.
Within the business realm we're seeing increasing numbers of non technical people vibe coding small apps because they know what they want and as long as they can describe it, they get it.
Dany P @FaceFlow
Hardware is becoming accessible to us builders with the software part handled. It will guide us. I dont think we all need to become influencers of brands or comedians. We can now build stuff we could only dream of before and we will be able to do so for a long time.
Matt Teixeira @matt_teeixeira
So you need to create the product that interacts with the chat app.
They won’t do everything.
Paolo M. Tajani @paol_taj
Utility apps, maybe. Lifestyle, entertainment, and social apps will grow. Human-curated content will be as valuable as fine art.
Ronald Chumaceiro @ronchumaceiro
personal homepages disappeared in 2005 and i've spent the last 5 years running a webflow agency that only builds homepages. the normies left. the people who pay didn't. same thing will happen with apps: the chat does your bookkeeping, and the shared budget you and your partner
Xico @xico_com_xis
Margins for digital services will disappear.
Real life services/experiences is the next trend I think as everyone gets saturated from ai/social media. You can already see an uptick in prices over the last years
JΞNSΞN @jensenloke
The world is waking up to building mcp servers for all their apps. At least I’m doing it!
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