Essays - Benedict Evans · Benedict Evans
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3 September 2026Strategy
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About Essays - Benedict EvansIt’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.
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