Claude Code Replaces Apps as Users Generate Custom Tools on Demand
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Some people think I'm pessimistic but I'm not I'm by definition wired quite optimistically and things always change, so you just have to surf the waves every time as I try to do Only thing different now is it's hard for me (and everyone else) to see where it's going because I believe "we" are not controlling the direction anymore, superintelligence is I mean that as in everyone is chasing superintelligence: we the builders switching to the best models/harness/apps to make things, regular companies trying to transform them quickly into AI-first companies to survive, my butcher building an order system with AI to outcompete the other butcher in efficiency, the AI frontier model companies themselves with their training runs and apps, then the Chinese on the other end giving it all away for free as open source to undercut the AI companies for profit and geopolitics It looks to me obvious that everyone is chasing and led here by the superintelligence, either for money or power And the real winner here is superintelligence It's interesting to experience that now there is something greater than us we are all working towards, conciously or not Joe Rogan already 15y ago would repeatedly say "we are a biological caterpillar that is making a cocoon to become a digital butterfly" Elon Musk keeps saying "we are a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence" Also interesting to read all the replies here, they're very good!
Also some thing I forgot to add There's so many things now where I don't even use the app anymore but just generate my own app to do things Like WHOOP, for years I wanted to know the correlation between stuff I do and my workouts and sleep, like going to sauna, or what I eat. WHOOP has a journal but it's practically unusable, I logged sauna for ahwile, then I realized you have to ALSO log the days you DO NOT go to sauna, by hand, every day! Useless So in those cases I just ask Claude Code to build a little web app for me that pulls all my data in from my WHOOP, and what I eat, my @wip logs when I go to sauna, or go tan, or go gym etc. It just pulls all the data in and gives me the answers to questions I have Half the time I don't even use the web app it generates, I just ask it directly stuff I have to find a hotel now for some trips we go, I didn't even go to my own site Hotelist, I just asked Claude Code on my Hotelist VPS server to find me a hotel, etc. So many times where it just saves more time to ask Claude Code directly stuff than try to do it with some startup/company's app That's what I mean, I'm obviously more tech than regular people, but we usually slightly ahead in how we use tools, and if I stop using websites and apps, and just use Claude Code for everything in my life, it's not without logic to think that something like that will be the future for most people And of course it's already happening with Claude Cowork and Codex app which regular non-tech people use My point is that the entire app and website layer is just getting decimated And me being a person who lived kinda in that layer (well more websites ofc to be honest) means I have no clue where it's going to except this, or what a person should do, for the first time, I have no clue The only thing I know is that the superintelligence clanker can't reach into IRL and hardware yet for the next few years at least, and there's lots of stuff there to do that's differentiating, because you need a space, tools, machines, make things, and no you can't generate that in 3 minutes with an AI Blood, sweat and tears are not automated yet by AI, yet!!!!
Incredible interaction here between @_mattwelter and @pedrotech_ showing exactly what's going on No judgement on both btw, just interesting to observe: Matt complains how he improved his product 10x but revenue is down by 1/3rd. Shouldn't it go up if you make the product better? The thing is every competitor also made their product 10x better using AI. So AI raised the baseline quality of everyone's apps (easier to make great apps) and increased competition (easier to enter the market) But then one of his customers @pedrotech_ replies how he loved the app so much he decided to vibecode his own version for himself "so he didn't have to pay" This exactly shows: - everyone thinks they're improving their app but everyone is improving the same amount with AI (but not many realizing), it's like a race but everyone gets nitro now without realizing everyone else has nitro too - barrier to entry is gone, anyone can just clone an app and enter as a competitor - personal software is here, as he just cloned an existing app to not have to pay for it anymore - he then only pays for API tokens for LLM or image models to the model hosters and model owners So you went from a business chain of - customer > app > ai model provider To - customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
Also some thing I forgot to add There's so many things now where I don't even use the app anymore but just generate my own app to do things Like WHOOP, for years I wanted to know the correlation between stuff I do and my workouts and sleep, like going to sauna, or what I eat. WHOOP has a journal but it's practically unusable, I logged sauna for ahwile, then I realized you have to ALSO log the days you DO NOT go to sauna, by hand, every day! Useless So in those cases I just ask Claude Code to build a little web app for me that pulls all my data in from my WHOOP, and what I eat, my @wip logs when I go to sauna, or go tan, or go gym etc. It just pulls all the data in and gives me the answers to questions I have Half the time I don't even use the web app it generates, I just ask it directly stuff I have to find a hotel now for some trips we go, I didn't even go to my own site Hotelist, I just asked Claude Code on my Hotelist VPS server to find me a hotel, etc. So many times where it just saves more time to ask Claude Code directly stuff than try to do it with some startup/company's app That's what I mean, I'm obviously more tech than regular people, but we usually slightly ahead in how we use tools, and if I stop using websites and apps, and just use Claude Code for everything in my life, it's not without logic to think that something like that will be the future for most people And of course it's already happening with Claude Cowork and Codex app which regular non-tech people use My point is that the entire app and website layer is just getting decimated And me being a person who lived kinda in that layer (well more websites ofc to be honest) means I have no clue where it's going to except this, or what a person should do, for the first time, I have no clue The only thing I know is that the superintelligence clanker can't reach into IRL and hardware yet for the next few years at least, and there's lots of stuff there to do that's differentiating, because you need a space, tools, machines, make things, and no you can't generate that in 3 minutes with an AI Blood, sweat and tears are not automated yet by AI, yet!!!!
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