This is where I believe Apple is making a mistake by not going all in on AI.

People think it's some kind of genius move or very Apple-like move to not join the AI race.

But who is actually going to build apps on the fly better, faster for you? Siri or Opus 9? Siri or GPT 10 Astra?

When many tasks are done better on a single AI app, the iPhone moat will be greatly diminished which will open up competitors to iOS and Android.

Are there any real examples of apps built on the fly better and faster?

Technically, any case where LLM casually writes and runs a nontrivial piece of code to fulfill your random request would qualify.

One of the qualifiers was "better"

Many requests on ChatGPT used to be able handled by some app before.

I paste a screenshot and ChatGPT automatically knows to extract the text for me. Needed an expensive/inconsistent app before.

Sure, though right now this is due to all the mainstream apps that run on my phone being bloated by ads and tracking from a thousand random analytics firms, plus all the ad-boosted results in the App Store.

There's really no reason I should have found it easier to ask Claude to make me a general purpose card game engine with a bunch of game rules baked in than to be able to actually find the first non-enshitified app, but thanks to all of that nonsense there was.

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