Pieter Levels: AI Agents Will Build Software for Ordinary Users

Summary

Pieter Levels argues that ordinary users will not necessarily ask AI to “build software”; they will describe a practical task and let an AI application or agent create the needed tool. He gives the example of turning a photo-editing request into a Photoshop-like editor. For business analysis, he imagines an agent connecting APIs from multiple ecommerce platforms, generating a dashboard, and keeping it updated with scheduled jobs. Levels says this is already beginning to happen and predicts that users may eventually stop using many conventional software products because their AI systems will create task-specific alternatives on demand.