Wabi, the startup that originally let people build apps by typing prompts, is changing direction. The company now describes Wabi 2.0 as a new kind of messenger that makes apps and gets things done for you and your friends, with founder Eugenia Kuyda calling it a personal agent that does stuff for you and builds the interface you need in the moment. The pivot moves Wabi away from competing with other vibe-coding tools and toward the emerging category of AI agents that combine chat and productivity in one interface, such as Meta’s Muse and Instinct.

Kuyda argues that chat-only agents get worse the more they are used, because history and ongoing tasks end up buried in an endless scroll. People want to tap, scroll, and look, not just type, so the most powerful agent will combine conversation with dynamically created software. For instance, a health thread could generate a calorie tracker, weightlifting log, or weight tracker, while a family thread could produce a kids’ activity calendar, a language-learning app, or a local kid-friendly events app. The new experience is invite-only, with codes being shared on X. The shift also coincides with OpenAI’s Dev Day update to ChatGPT plugins, which lets apps offer interactive experiences inside ChatGPT and pin their names in the sidebar, reflecting a broader industry move toward apps living inside agent interfaces.