Taylor: “Build three clients. Let the agents maintain them.”

What should our mobile strategy be?

What should our mobile strategy be?“Build three clients. Let the agents maintain them.”Taylor Kim, The AI Native

💡 WHY TAYLOR IS RIGHT

The traditional argument for one cross-platform codebase is labor cost, and code-generation agents materially change that cost. With strong API contracts, shared tests and visual verification, separate Swift, Kotlin and web clients may no longer imply three full teams. The limiting resource can shift from writing code to specifying and verifying behavior. If that is genuinely true for the team, architecture should reflect the new economics rather than yesterday's staffing assumptions.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

Agent-generated code is already normal and verification is strong enough to catch drift.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

Code generation is cheap, but reviewing three subtly different products becomes the new full-time job.