On: Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data

If you can have any app at the snap of your fingers, you will have them all

I really don't understand why people can't see the future, in ten years the speed at which AI will create apps will be astonishing. Any app, ask and get it done instantly. So if one provider (your AI provider) has them all why would you go around looking for the same thing if you already have them in one place?

I use DeepSeek because Claude never allowed me to play with it (living in Venezuela), but I know people that started with Claude just use it everyday and by inertia they won't switch, no reason at all. Just ask Claude for anything and it will deliver. Same for any AI. Retention is the key word, tools, apps, services, plugins, libraries, all in one place, everything.

AI is the new OS, the new browser, the new marketplace

The key is people DON'T ask Claude to make an app to do X, they just ask Claude to do X.

The latter is the key to Anthropic's IPO price. Why spend the time building tooling to do a thing when you can just ask the magic robot to do the thing, each time?

To avoid having to pay the magic robot to do the thing over and over again. Why rent movies when you can buy them?

People are often shockingly unaware of what their usage costs. It's a fairly common pattern for nontechnical users to have huge long-running sessions which they periodically give easily automatable tasks to. The most expensive users are often also getting the least value out of the LLM.

Insert dvd sales vs netflix chart here.

> I really don't understand why people can't see the future, in ten years the speed at which AI will create apps will be astonishing.

Why do you assume people don't understand this? I think most people, especially those on HN are painfully aware of this.

I generally agree.

At least now, it depends on availability of requirements. If someone asks for a notepad app, AI has a ton of information available to go off of.

If you are asking for an app that is some esoteric pile of business logic, not sure how app would know what to build.

"the speed at which AI will create apps will be astonishing"

... it's already astonishing and nearly instant.

I tried making an Obsidian clone in Rust using claude code... It did not go well. I suppose it doesn't have any well designed note taking apps in the training set