@paulg: AI apps are the new browsers.
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Paul Graham shares Austen Allred's observation that AI apps like Claude Code and Codex are increasingly becoming the primary interface for computer tasks, analogous to browsers in the past.
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AI apps are the new browsers.
Austen Allred (@Austen): More and more I’m just opening an AI app (Claude Code or Codex) and doing almost everything else on my computer from there
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