The traditional "app" might be a transitional form. What actually replaces it when AI becomes the primary interface? (UPDATE)

Reddit r/artificial / 4/25/2026

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Key Points

  • The author continues a discussion about how traditional apps may “dissolve” as AI becomes the primary user interface, and explains what comes next conceptually.
  • As a follow-up, they have released an open-source project called FlashQuery (FlashQuery/flashquery) on GitHub, positioning it as an open data layer usable by any LLM.
  • The project’s day-to-day usability is already working for the author, with a strong emphasis on robustness through comprehensive automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end, and scenario tests).
  • The author notes that Andrej Karpathy’s LLM-Wiki approach aligns well with the roadmap features they planned, and they are steering the project to support that direction.
  • They invite feedback, questions, and community testing and contributions, prioritizing documentation as the first step for onboarding users.

I posted a few weeks ago theorizing about what happens when apps "dissolve" when AI becomes the primary UI. I mentioned that I was building an open-source data layer for any LLM...and received some great feedback both in the comments and via DMs (original post).

As a follow-up from that discussion, I'm happy to say that it was just released on on Github!

https://github.com/FlashQuery/flashquery

It's been working for me day to day, and that's really the use case I've been targeting - people like me. Thanks to my engineering career spanning product + test (including functional verification in semiconductors years ago), I'm absolutely hell bent on making it robust. "If it wasn't tested, it doesn't work." So we have unit, integration, e2e, and even a growing set of "scenario" tests that truly go end to end...all automated and built from scratch. It's kinda cool, at least for me. Oh, and they're all passing :)

Of course, between my original post and now, Andrej Karpathy described his LLM-Wiki approach, and honestly, this project is not too far off. It's a great target use case for FlashQuery. Turns out that many of the features I had on the roadmap will in fact support his concept, so I'm driving towards that.

Love to hear any feedback, questions, and even better, testing it out yourself, and contribution if you are persuaded to do so. I'll do my best to respond asap. And the docs are my first best shot, and more to come, so please be kind.

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