Carl Pei at SXSW: 'Apps Are Going to Disappear' — AI Agents Need Their Own Interface, Not Human UI
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei declared at SXSW that smartphone apps will disappear within five years, warning founders whose core value lives in an app that they 'will be disrupted whether you like it or not.' His critical insight: 'The future is not the agent using a human interface. You need to create an interface for the agent to use.' He dismissed current AI features that tap through human menus as 'super boring' and predicts the phone OS itself will fundamentally change.