Pieter Levels posted that normies simply ask AI to do bookkeeping, file taxes, organize events, or edit videos rather than vibe coding. Replies discuss how agents could call APIs directly and market to machines instead of humans. One participant described this as headless SaaS. Others noted the distinction between AI helping people build software and AI making dedicated apps obsolete. The thread centers on whether chat interfaces will gradually absorb the functions of existing services.
This is essentially my belief too And I'm confused why so many people don't think this yet The AI chat apps will slowly eat up most services and provide them to users directly, many times without even an app or interface, just do whatever the user wants Dario Anthropic said…
And again you are ahead of the pack! This will be standard practice soon, the better AI gets at single shotting whatever service we want. You had the capability to code already so you could be super productive with just a little help and early. That little advantage will…
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Pieter Levels explains that nontechnical users will request AI chat apps to handle tasks without seeing code or interfaces.
Pieter Levels posted that normies simply ask AI to do bookkeeping, file taxes, organize events, or edit videos rather than vibe coding. Replies discuss how agents could call APIs directly and market to machines instead of humans. One participant described this as headless SaaS. Others noted the distinction between AI helping people build software and AI making dedicated apps obsolete. The thread centers on whether chat interfaces will gradually absorb the functions of existing services.
This is essentially my belief too And I'm confused why so many people don't think this yet The AI chat apps will slowly eat up most services and provide them to users directly, many times without even an app or interface, just do whatever the user wants Dario Anthropic said…
And again you are ahead of the pack! This will be standard practice soon, the better AI gets at single shotting whatever service we want. You had the capability to code already so you could be super productive with just a little help and early. That little advantage will…
Quantic@0xQuanticOne consequence I don’t see discussed enough: AI agents could destroy a lot of the value of consumer inertia. Humans might tolerate bad pricing, bad UX and mediocre services because switching and comparing takes effort. And software doesn’t get tired of comparing. A…
Neil Magnuson@hustlin_heev@levelsio As someone who talked to my users They are so so so not technical Like boomers and marketer girlies I cannot image them vibe coding anything But maybe ur right, it’ll just get so good at u won’t need to think thru or problem solve.
@levelsio@levelsioI 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…
Marcell Almeida 👋@almeidamarcell@levelsio Exactly - this image helps understand that.
Jon（ジョン）@jcinjpn@levelsio The level of automation demanded by software now is orders of magnitude greater than before as a result.
Marc Köhlbrugge@marckohlbruggePeople 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…
Many accounts welcomed agents becoming the runtime that obsoletes wrapper code and static apps because intent alone will handle tasks, while some objected over high token costs and lost SaaS margins.
Based on 68 sentiment-bearing replies from 59 accounts across 2 conversations.
Quantic@0xQuanticOne consequence I don’t see discussed enough: AI agents could destroy a lot of the value of consumer inertia. Humans might tolerate bad pricing, bad UX and mediocre services because switching and comparing takes effort. And software doesn’t get tired of comparing. A…
Neil Magnuson@hustlin_heev@levelsio As someone who talked to my users They are so so so not technical Like boomers and marketer girlies I cannot image them vibe coding anything But maybe ur right, it’ll just get so good at u won’t need to think thru or problem solve.
Dang theory@DangTheory@hustlin_heev @levelsio they literally can just open up any of the main chat llms and start talking and vibe something into existence.
.@dffy_@DangTheory @hustlin_heev @levelsio No they can’t. They don’t know how vibe coding works and they are always too lazy to learn. most of them doesn’t even have Claude code or codex installed
Dang theory@DangTheory@dffy_ @hustlin_heev @levelsio they literally just need to know how to google something and ask today's llms to make something and it will...
.@dffy_@DangTheory @hustlin_heev @levelsio They won’t do that. And most of the people doesn’t even know how to google properly. I have sales team at work. Everyone has an access to Claude/Codex. No one from the sales team vibe codes anything, they come to me to do that.
Many accounts welcomed agents becoming the runtime that obsoletes wrapper code and static apps because intent alone will handle tasks, while some objected over high token costs and lost SaaS margins.
Based on 68 sentiment-bearing replies from 59 accounts across 2 conversations.