Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
THE SO WHAT
If agents become the primary interface, apps degrade into back-end capabilities and data sources—distribution shifts from app stores to whoever owns the agent layer. Builders should be thinking about how their product is exposed to agents via APIs, schemas, and incentives, not just human-facing UI.
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