Eric Xu (e/Mettā)(@xleaps):I believe the age of building AI native desktop apps is here. As glorious as web is, many AI capabilities these days require a local runtime to fully interact with computers and applications. I heard a lot of this new paradigm by building Noah. The key reflection can be summarized into one sentence: desktop app provides capabilities, backend provides intelligence and policy. In this paradigm, each client release is almost boring and customers don’t even care about a version number, and you basically treat the desktop app as one of the many views of your SaaS.

2026.06.28 01:25

I believe the age of building AI native desktop apps is here. As glorious as web is, many AI capabilities these days require a local runtime to fully interact with computers and applications. I heard a lot of this new paradigm by building Noah. The key reflection can be summarized into one sentence: desktop app provides capabilities, backend provides intelligence and policy. In this paradigm, each client release is almost boring and customers don’t even care about a version number, and you basically treat the desktop app as one of the many views of your SaaS.