AI in your app, or your app in AI?

➭ Visit link These days, lots of apps are adding AI to their tools and you have to use whatever they provide. As a longterm user of Fastmail, I really like their approach of enabling AI usage: they provide a MCP server to connect whatever AI you are using. Local or hosted. If you want to have AI for your mails at all. In their post announcing the MCP server, they made a very nice point about AI integration I’m totally fine with. There are two types to add AI to an app. Most apps do the following: The first (and the default today) is to integrate AI into the webapp. The webapp provider picks an AI system, builds it in, and ships it as a feature. A chat panel in the corner, a “summarize this” button, and so on. Each webapp ends up with its own AI, chosen by the developer, and none of them know anything about each other: your email has one AI, your project management system another, your document editor a third. From the user’s perspective, AI becomes a scattered collection of…