alt Hacker NewsWhy would you build an app at all? Why wouldn't Claude just be the app itself? You ask it to set up your UI in the web app and you just use Claude for your entire workflow.
We're only a few persistent widgets and a better persistent storage story away from this possibility.
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goatlover • today at 7:45 PM
This is kind of like Alan Kay's idea in the 70s/80s for the Smalltalk image being the software that users customize to their needs instead of buying the software, except now it's a chatbot/agent interface instead of a customizable, integrated Smalltalk IDE.
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> Why would you build an app at all? Why wouldn't Claude just be the app itself?
Because then you don't have to keep spending tokens to use the app.