AI may become your only app
It’s hard to tell for sure where AI is heading, but one possibility is that it eventually becomes the only app that you use.
I mentioned in my Sunday Summary a few weeks ago how I’ve been using the new MCP protocol to connect more apps into Claude (and you can do the same with ChatGPT), and that type of configuration is expanding very rapidly.
As of right now, I have Claude connected to my email, calendar, Notion, Clickup and a few other tools, which makes it somewhat more useful. As these connections develop, though, the usefulness could potentially skyrocket.
In a recent episode of the “My First Million” podcast, the idea of “always-on AI” was brought up. There are a handful of new devices coming soon that will listen 24/7 (with optional muted times, of course) and then help keep everything in your life organized. The combination of devices like those with MCP could lead to some interesting things, as they shared in the show:
“We’re going to go from 20 minutes a day in ChatGPT to 24 hours a day in ChatGPT. And when we’re in ChatGPT 24 hours a day, we’re not going to pull up a CRM. We’re not going to use the interfaces. These interfaces are already dying.”
In their case, they talked about tools like Hubspot. Why would you go into Hubspot and dig around for reports if you could just ask ChatGPT “give me the stats on our last email campaign”?
For example, a query I’ve been playing with in Claude each morning is to ask it:
“Help me prepare for my day.
First, look in Help Scout and see if there are any open tickets that are assigned to me.
Next, let me know of any overdue tasks in ClickUp that are assigned to me.
Lastly, look at my calendar for today and let me know of any meetings I have. For anything you find, please dig into my email to provide me more context about the people that will be in each of them.”
The results are imperfect, but pretty great, and it’s only going to get better. At some point will I spend most of my time in Claude (or some other agent) versus bouncing around to 20 different apps?
It seems quite possible.