AI Agents are going to trash your Android and IOS device, and ask you to buy a Linux phone.
The app bottleneck for Mobile Linux is slowly ending, but not in the way you might expect. Instead of downloading apps from a store, imagine telling your phone “I need an app that tracks my garden’s growth and suggests when to water based on weather data.” Seconds later, an AI generates that exact app, perfectly tailored to your needs.
This isn’t science fiction – it’s the near future of mobile computing. AI systems already understand Linux development deeply, having learned from millions of open-source projects. Now they’re ready to put that knowledge to work generating apps on demand.
GOD: AI, you just read all the internet, you can code in any language in any language, now it finly time for your user prompt… write an IOS app.
AI: F***!
Initially, these AI app generators will need to be run on powerful servers, similar to how ChatGPT works today. Even so power open source models can already get the job done. (Looking at you R1). You’ll describe what you need, the AI will generate the code on a server, and then deploy it to your phone. Linux phones are perfectly positioned for this because they can run any code the AI creates without artificial platform restrictions.
As AI models become more efficient and mobile processors more powerful, this generation process will move directly onto your phone. Your Linux phone will become its own development environment, able to create and modify apps on the fly. Need to tweak that garden app to track different plants? The AI can modify it right there, no server required.
Android and iOS weren’t designed for this kind of flexible, on-device development. But Linux phones? They’re basically pocket computers with full development capabilities. The same tools that work on Linux desktop work on Linux phones, giving AI a complete workshop to create exactly what you need, when you need it.
I expect this shift to on-demand app generation will make Linux phones incredibly attractive. An AI assistant is only as good as its tools, and Linux provides the most comprehensive toolkit available.
If you’d like to see me try building such a system, let me know in the comments below and I’ll give it a stab.
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