Meet 'Dobby': The AI agent that could kill the app economy

A human dressed up as Dobby the Elf from Harry Potter series during a trans march in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Andrej Karpathy, the father of vibe coding, is starting to live in a world without apps.

On a recent episode of "No Priors," Karpathy described an experiment with an OpenClaw AI agent that effectively replaced the fragmented software stack in his home.