The Next Personal Software Won't Be an App

OpenAI describes Codex plugins as bundles of apps, skills, instructions, and workflows. Reading that, I kept coming back to a much simpler question: what will people actually ask their computers to do? I think they will ask for the thing they want: "Update my CV", "send this email", or "prepare my agenda every morning." The agent will figure out whether it needs an API, an existing tool, or some…