Agents Are Not Replacing Apps, They Are Replacing Menus
The pitch is 'no more apps, just talk to an agent.' What is actually happening is narrower and more useful: agents are replacing the parts of an app you hated using.
Every few months someone claims the app is dead and an agent will just do everything for you. I do not think that is what is happening, and I say that as someone who builds automations for a living.
What agents are actually good at replacing is navigation. The menu you dig through, the seven settings screens, the form with seventeen fields you fill out the same way every time. That is a UI problem, not a logic problem, and agents are a genuinely better interface for it.
What they are not good at replacing is the app underneath. Someone still has to own the database schema, the permissions model, the thing that makes sure a delete actually deletes and a payment actually charges once. An agent that can call any tool is only as trustworthy as the code behind the tool call.
So the products I am watching are not 'agent replaces app.' They are apps that add an agent as a front door: same backend, same guarantees, but the user gets to say what they want instead of clicking through to find it. That is the version of this trend I am actually building toward, not the one in the demo videos.