Engineer with 30 years experience argues AI will make traditional apps obsolete, replacing them with AI-accessible, openly-formatted data

Current AI use is peripheral—helping humans think before manually transferring outputs to separate systems, not a true integration

Apps as software organizers for specific workflows may become unnecessary with mature AI infrastructure and proper data accessibility

The future replaces dedicated apps with data itself as the foundation, organized in open formats users own, accessible to any AI system

Author is building toward this vision at early stage and plans to release the project as open source