Why General-Purpose Agents Will Prevail

2026-06-23

by Uri Walevski

The current crop of specialized AI coding platforms like base44 and lovable are impressive. They give you a neat, split-screen UI where you click a button and watch a web app get built right in front of you.

But they have a major flaw: lock-in.

If you build your app inside their custom infrastructure, you are bound to their way of coding, their deployment pipelines, and their feature roadmap. If you need a specific capability they haven't built yet, you are stuck waiting for a corporate release cycle.

That is not how developers actually want to work. We want the richness of the global open-source community, not a walled garden.

This is why general-purpose agents like Claude Code, Antigravity, and prompt2bot will win. They operate directly on your codebase, with your tooling, on your own terms.

There is a trade-off, of course. The experience with general-purpose agents is less neat. Instead of a beautiful split-screen dashboard, you are often interacting through a simple terminal or a chat interface on Telegram or WhatsApp.

Personally, I prefer this. Split-screen views are distracting. I don't have the attention span to watch a screen rebuild itself while also trying to think about the next instruction. A single chat channel or terminal window lets you focus on one thing.

The future of software development isn't customized, proprietary IDEs that build apps on hidden infrastructure. It is general-purpose agents that run wherever you already are.

You can try this workflow yourself with the prompt2bot coder skill.

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