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Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, launching in beta on Free, Pro, and Max tiers (Jay Peters/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/news/693342/anthropic-claude-ai-apps-artifact http://www.techmeme.com/250625/p34#a250625p34

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Kyle Hughes Jun 26

I legitimately think that agentic LLMs are the future of personal computers, the new operating system. Using Claude Code to interact with your own software over MCP, and see it autonomously solve problems with it and using it, is transcendent. The rest of the computer feels so antiquated, handmade GUIs feel cumbersome. Our computers will use our computers soon.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

I feel like I'm having an out of body experience wherein my whole community is obsessing over Liquid Glass and I'm saying this is the best software interface I have ever used or could even imagine.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

GraphQL via MCP is a slept-on giant. I have never felt like it lived up to its promise for frontend technologies, but letting an agent introspect the schema and dynamically generate scoped queries at runtime is the perfect fit. It amounts to emergent behavior. I used apollo-mcp-server to expose my company’s schema over MCP, then paired that with documents for domain knowledge, as well as schema pattern knowledge, and Claude Code can autonomously use our entire application without a frontend.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

I think we are barreling toward a future where an agent is the frontend for most software products. The companies that will be able to exist in that world are ones that own customer data, have proprietary data themselves, or provide access to gatekept services (e.g. brokerages). There is no moat for solving problems at runtime. Bespoke UI, if necessary, will be generated just-in-time. These big beautiful screens will mostly be used for video consumption.

Matt Massicotte Jun 26

@kyle But the video will be AI generated right?

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@mattiem without a doubt

Matt Massicotte Jun 26

@kyle Whew got worried for a second

Dominic Hopton Jun 26

@kyle NO KYLE. YOU ARE WRONG. DONT WANNA. LAH LAH LAH LAH LAH.

(i think you are approximately correct. I just think the time horizon is longer than we think, but shorter than we hope — professionally speaking at least)

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@grork Yeah. This is slow as hell, running over the network at an incalculable (actually very calculable) loss to Anthropic. Mainframe-era-type shit. But I also have no clue how quickly it can get better.

Tyler Hillsman Jun 26

@kyle As a silly afternoon project yesterday, I (ok, Claude Code) wrapped our auth endpoints (including 2FA flow) in an MCP server and logged in + got my test user using Claude Desktop.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@thillsman Tyler Dillard

Tyler Hillsman Jun 26

@kyle It's actually Charles on that account. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@thillsman Tyler Charles Dillard

Kyle Bashour Jun 26

@kyle wow nice home folder, I have one just like it

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@kylebshr mom said it was my turn to use it get out of here

Kyle Bashour Jun 26

@kyle ok but it's my turn with claude

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@kyle Liquid Terminal is the future.

Daniel Lyons Jun 26

@kyle I'm too poor for Claude Code. Gemini CLI suits me fine for now.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@dandylyons any port in a storm

Ben Sulzinsky Jun 26

@kyle I'd posit that you alongside a subset of technologist-developers reside under the right tail of the bell curve with regard to understanding software as strictly problem-solving. I'm a game developer i.e. mainly a peddler of frivolities. The software I make is improved by tactility and aesthetic beauty. A music app or social media feed might be too, no? What if you analogize Liquid Glass hype with, say, excitement for the ergonomic Joy-Cons on the Switch 2, or a new Unreal Engine release?

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@bgsulz I get your point but I don’t want to be pigeonholed: I’m a self-styled “Apple platforms developer,” because I do care deeply about the aesthetics and the effect on the user experience, I just can’t personally do design. I love the entire spectrum of designing and developing and using software. I would say I like Liquid Glass more than most. But the user experience of natural language software through MCP is so profound that it makes everything else seem trite. It’s also very fun.

Ben Sulzinsky Jun 26

@kyle Apologies, Kyle. I've pigeonholed you by mistake. The superb UX of Rank Things substantiates your point. For brevity, I omitted that I agree with your broader analysis. After getting used to LLMs in text-driven settings, I've felt a sort of "itch" performing tedious operations in Unity (renaming, filling references, etc.) Surely an LLM can do this..? There's a twinge of sadness as I realize that to be true for more and more of my daily work. Thank you as always for your insight.

Frank O'Dwyer Jun 26

@kyle If so, your computer won’t be your computer for much longer.

Your computer is one untrusted input away from being somebody else’s computer.

Kyle Hughes Jun 26

@fodwyer I have never been more sure of anything than that we will trade security for orders-of-magnitude increase in convenience.

Frank O'Dwyer Jun 26

@kyle undoubtedly, since we will trade security for pictures of cats!

But “non technical users will be able to write apps” implies “non technical users will be able to write zero days” and “non technical users will be able to find and use exploits”

And there’s the more prosaic risk of turning an overconfident bullshitter loose on your machine, hosing it (I always mentally substitute “Boris Johnson” when people say “AI” - as in “we’re letting Boris Johnson issue commands and write PRs”)

@kyle Mf said Clade.