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Anton Kalinin retweeted
> I don't even use the app anymore but just generate my own app to do things
I really think this is where we're going. It's not AI enabling "everyone to code". It's AI enabling anyone to "assemble software by asking".
We rethink the "unit of distribution"
Instead of only distributing apps, you distribute small, well-built, well tested blocks that an agent can put together. For you.
Yes. Personal Software.
We're not there for consumer apps but we might already be for developer tools/apps. people will pay for small parts that work well together. your agents will look for them.
Looking back, this is what we did with shadcn/ui. Changed the unit of distribution from a packaged component library to well-built components you assemble.
Same idea. Now at a much larger scale.
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!!!!
One observation working in AI-heavy organization: having a large and rich context is your competitive advantage. Same was before but now it’s doubled with the fact that code generation is not such a valuable skill.
Constantly failing in making startup company from my pet projects. But at least I have cool photo from startup capital.
The thing I started to try out #gpui by @zeddotdev is finally shaped into something not too embarrassing to show. I called it Probee and it lets you run custom prompt on a screen selection. Here, for example, how it assists me in learning new Finnish words.
Anton Kalinin retweeted
making a portable m4 mac mini
full video + project files: youtu.be/MNnpzamnX84
What if instead of integrating AI into workbench — AI starts streaming deterministic UI back to user in real time?
AI is here, but without form, we won’t see its full potential.
Chat is the beginning, but not the final destination. We still need great interfaces to guide and set the context.
linear.app/blog/design-for-t…
I mean we already have v0.dev and I think it can be just a beginning: I imagine to my request to book a hotel AI just build the booking UI on the fly with my preferences preset.
Anton Kalinin retweeted
making an iPhone Standby Mode Dock with Overwerk
full video + project files: bit.ly/ow-syj-dock
Anton Kalinin retweeted
Here's also our postmortem of 3 years of Rust gamedev, and why we're leaving Rust
loglog.games/blog/leaving-ru…
#rustgamedev #rustlang
Anton Kalinin retweeted
Problem: React's useEffect only specifies when code should run. It doesn’t document why it should run or what it should do. This makes useEffect hard to read, debug, and maintain.
Solution: Use a custom ESLint rule to require using a named function.
Here’s a custom rule from @pkerschbaum
Here's the result:
!["no-restricted-syntax": [ "error", // Require naming the function passed to `useEffect`. { selector: ":matches(CallExpression[callee.object.name='React'][callee.property.name='useEffect'], CallExpression[callee.name='useEffect']) > :matches(ArrowFunctionExpression, FunctionExpression:not([id]))", message: "Functions passed to `useEffect` must be named to document intent. More info: https://x.com/housecor/status/1750980809874436431.", }, ],](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFap_ciXQAAnC1N.jpg?name=orig)
ALT "no-restricted-syntax": [ "error", // Require naming the function passed to `useEffect`. { selector: ":matches(CallExpression[callee.object.name='React'][callee.property.name='useEffect'], CallExpression[callee.name='useEffect']) > :matches(ArrowFunctionExpression, FunctionExpression:not([id]))", message: "Functions passed to `useEffect` must be named to document intent. More info: https://x.com/housecor/status/1750980809874436431.", }, ],
Not as a criticism but purely as a challenge to achieve the same result with minimal amount of code did a single html version of Minimalist CV by Bartosz Jarocki
github.com/antonKalinin/cv
i created a print-friendly, minimalist cv page. if you're like me and need a CV, it's a pretty good way to generate PDF or just have a simple website. built with @nextjs @shadcn UI and @tailwindcss
github.com/BartoszJarocki/cv
I do share the idea that you should use any tools that make you productive if it doesn't harm the DX & UX, but here I couldn't resist and just wrote old good index.html which was very satisfying
antonkalinin.github.io/cv/
Anton Kalinin retweeted
TIL socket.io is being rewritten in Rust 🦀🤯
The API is beautifully ergonomic.
github.com/Totodore/socketio… – at San Francisco, CA
ALT io.ns("/", |s: SocketRef| { s.on("new message", |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(msg)| { let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone(); let msg = Res::Message { username, message: msg, }; s.broadcast().emit("new message", msg).ok(); }); s.on("add user", |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(username)| { if s.extensions.get::<Username>().is_some() { return; } let i = NUM_USERS.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst); s.extensions.insert(Username(username.clone())); s.emit("login", Res::Login { num_users: i }).ok(); }); });
Anton Kalinin retweeted
How Transformers Work
This is probably one of the most beautiful visualizations of how today's LLMs work.
ig.ft.com/generative-ai/