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aurareturn | on: Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy
For the last 6 months, I've been telling my company that I don't think our app will matter much soon. I think most of our customers will want to interact with our service via their AI agent.

This is coming from my own experience as a software developer. I do not want to leave Claude Code. I'm hooking up everything into Claude Code and have it do what I want for me. I do not want to log into my cloud provider. I do not want to log into my Github. I don't want to log into any 3rd party services. I just want to stay in Claude Code.

I think developers tend to be ahead of the general public by 1-2 years in AI use. I imagine a future where most people simply want to stay within their ChatGPT/Claude/Muse/Grok/Gemini agent to do just about everything.

If my prediction is correct, I think Apple is going to be in trouble because it weakens the iPhone ecosystem severely and they are so far behind in AI everything that it's hard for me to see them ever catching up. Not to mention they do not have access to compute since they've not invested in compute.

thepryz | parent | next
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would hate a future where I have to talk or type everything to an agent. It's difficult enough to communicate with people. Language is imprecise. For that reason, among many others, I think you'll always need traditional UI/UX, potentially some new concepts to adapt to new technology like AR, and supplemented by an AI Agent that can assist and augment rather than replace.

Apple's use of Siri in Vision Pro is a good start, but there would need to be tighter integration w/ the UI. That's probably on the roadmap... assuming they continue to develop it.

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threetonesun | parent | next
Have people forgotten why software exists? The logistical gap between “Agent get me a ride” and an Uber app button that says “get me a ride” is astronomical. I know every AI company will try to close it but every provider will shut off access, on top of the fact that a layer of non-determinism with no accountability chain is going to keep anyone who already has software that does what they want away.
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ethbr1 | parent
> I think developers tend to be ahead of the general public by 1-2 years in AI use.

I'm pushing the perennial 'developers (and engineers) think differently' trope here, but I think you're wildly optimistic.

The inability of the average person to write a detailed enough spec for implementation, compared to how trivial it is for an experienced developer, is mind boggling.

Imho, this is going to extend to agentic interactions with app-as-service-for-agent.

You don't magically increase customer experience by multiplying (garbage average user prompt) * (whatever agent they use) * (MCP, etc).

The first two variables are too unbounded.

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