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What is the future of so-called "thin wrapper" apps around ?

Is this just a phase that will go away as the market matures? Or is the friction of the textual user interface actually the major brake on AI adoption, meaning there is significant value in "just" being a more user-friendly interface on top of the command line?

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Last week, I wrote about enterprise uses of AI, but I realised that there was more to say, in particular about the notion that, both in the consumer and in the enterprise space, many apps are seen (rightly or wrongly) as no more than thin wrappers around an AI model. Right now, as I write this in early 2026, many consumer AI products especially act primarily as middlemen, executing fairly simple prompts of AI models against content:

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And @tomTom Casavant found a whole other set of issues with thin wrappers around functionality: you can prompt-inject them to the point of running your smart home on them! tomcasavant.com/your-search-bu

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