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Shopify is moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin apps. The reason isn't nostalgia for native. It's that agents now do enough of the dual-codebase grunt work to flip a six-year-old economic assumption.
A consumer coding agent, an open-source harness, and a frontier model's reasoning shipped as a dataset all landed in one week. The consensus says agents are converging. The evidence says they're fragmenting.
Simon Willison shipped condense-json 1.0 to shrink the SQLite logs his LLM tool generates. The unglamorous release is a signal about where the token era's costs actually accumulate: not in the model call, but in everything you keep afterward.
Ethan Mollick's guide to which AI to use went from a chat-model beauty contest to a list of agentic work platforms in a year. The vendor now missing from it tells you where the market actually moved.
Anthropic shipped, Apple borrowed, Musk listed, Bezos built. Read as four stories they look unrelated. Read as a value-chain map they describe a single migration: AI moving from conversation into action.
