Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side

Claude built me a simple react app AND rendered it in it's own UI - including using imports and stuff.

I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

> I am looking forward to this type of real time app creation being added into our OSs, browsers, phones and glasses.

What do you see that being used for?

Surely, polished apps written for others are going to be best built in professional tools that live independently of whatever the OS might offer.

So I assume you're talking about quick little scratch apps for personal use? Like an AI-enriched version of Apple's Automator or Shortcuts, or of shell scripts, where you spend a while coahcing an AI to write the little one-off program you need instead of visually building a worrkflow or writing a simple script? Is that something you believe there's a high unmet need for?

This is an earnest question. I'm sincerely curious what you're envisioning and how it might supercede the rich variety of existing tools that seem to only see niche use today.

That will be a whole new level of malware attack angle.

When I was in college (10+ years ago) there was a system that allowed you to select your classes. During the selection period, certain people had priority (people a year above you got to select first).

Once a class was full, you could still get in if someone who was selected for the classes changed their mind, which (at an unpredictable time) would result in a seat becoming available in that class until another student noticed the availability and signed up.

So I wrote a simple PHP script that loaded the page every 60 seconds checking, and the script would send me a text message if any of the classes I wanted suddenly had an opening. I would then run to a computer and try to sign up.

These are the kind of bespoke, single-purpose things that I presume AI coding could help the average person with.

“Send me a push notification when the text on this webpage says the class isn’t full, and check every 60 seconds”

Can you expand on what you mean by this, and why?

Hard to say as someone with the power.

Ask a bird what flying is good for and their answer will be encumbered by reality.

Kind of the opposite of “everything looks like a nail”.

There's no shortage of applications, both desktop and mobile, that never really stray outside of the default toolkits. Line of business apps, for instance, don't need the polish that apps targeting consumers need. They just need to effectively manipulate data.

Every new tech is a new attack surface.

The best vulnerability is one that is hard to detect because it looks like a bug. It's not inconceivable to train an LLM to silently slip vulnerabilities in generated code. Someone who does not have a whole lot of programming experience is unlikely to detect it.

tl;dr it takes running untrusted code to a new level.

WebAssembly sandboxes might become handy.

This sort of thing needs to be built to be in-OS or in-device or whatever term we want to use to signify that the agent has to be me to do it. Scripting a browser that already has my saved credentials to do something for me, running in device, is where more things have to go, vs external third party services where we need to continually handle external auth protocols.

That guards against a small subset of vulnerabilities.

Since the original desire was to build any kind of personal/commercial app on an OS, the amount of potential vulnerabilities is potentially infinite.

This ultimately why I believe Microsoft and Apple will be the big winners. I suspect a lot of companies will want Microsoft and Apple to sign off on things and Microsoft and Apple are going to make sure they get their cut. We may need a new layer above existing operating systems in the future, to safeguard things.

Meh. Why would the model makers not be fantastic security vectors? The motivation to not be the company known to "silently slip vulnerabilities in generated code" seems fairly obvious.

People have always been able to slip in errors. I am confused why we assume that a LLM will on average not be better but worse on this front, and I suspect a lot of residual human-bias and copium.

> "Send me a push notification when the text on this webpage says the class isn’t full, and check every 60 seconds"

Yahoo Pipes. Definitely useful, definitely easier for some folks to string together basic operations into something more complex, but really ends up being for locally/personally consumed one-offs.

Yeah I was talking about small apps/services for personal use rather than professional applications built to serve a business need.

Two ideas: "For every picture of food I take, create a recipe to recreate it so I can make it at home in the future" or "Create an app where I can log my food for today and automatically calculate the calories based on the food I put in".