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Francis Irving shares his journey building personal apps for place recommendations, face memory, and music playback, using local-first software with Yjs and Hocuspocus, and highlights the benefits of LLM coding agents.
The article argues that AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to building small personal apps, allowing individuals to create useful tools for their own workflows without undertaking a full software project.
A speculative essay on the future of AI assistants, envisioning a central assistant that integrates with third-party apps, creates personalized apps, and proactively manages workflows via continuous conversation and memory.