Why Will Crafted Software Still Matter With AI Agents?

James Sun says crafted software will still matter alongside AI agents, because a product feels good when the person who designed it understands the experience a customer wants.

He would be very sad if the internet became a faceless place where AI agents only talk to each other and people stop using software, and he does not think it goes that way. His wife recently started a board game where you connect five pebbles to win. He thinks the name is OMOC. She plays online with friends and keeps losing, so he built a first version of a tactical trainer that walks through different gambits. He shaped it around the ways she likes to learn, so the software feels really good for her.

He thinks personalized software still feels, today, like something only technical people will do. A few years out, anybody can build really crafted software in a very short time for niche uses tailored to a person, and he calls that a beautiful world. At the end of her training, an AI agent could summarize the lessons and mistakes she made and give them to her as text.