Quoting Benedict Evans's AI, Tools and Transformation

Quoting Benedict Evans's "AI, tools and transformation" (via)

It can be very tempting to think that AI will sweep most of this away. There's an old joke that an engineer is someone who'll spend an hour building a tool to automate a task that would take 10 minutes. But with AI, now you can make that tool in two minutes, and you don't need to be an engineer, and you don't need to write code. You can just ask the model to make the tool for you, or, more fundamentally, just do the task for you itself. Instead of having to create those tools one at a time, software might be dynamic, generative, free-form, and spontaneous. Massively more tasks can be automated, with massively less software.

Second, all of this means that software is bought or chosen or created on a spectrum from top-down to bottom-up - the company buys SAP and the user makes a spreadsheet - and I think it's useful to think of this also as a spectrum from institutionalised to improvised.

Fantastic analysis that got me thinking about what kind of tools will be the spreadsheet of the agentic era, maybe sandstorm.io was too early and the whole vision shift around Cloudflare OS is moving it towards the right direction long-term.