Mitchell Davis

The Lazy Product Manifesto, that's the title of your talk this year, and it's about giving users of your applications, of your code, of whatever, giving their time back using AI.

So what have you changed your mind about building after realizing that the best features might be the ones that actually let your users do less with your applications?

I kind of feel that now with AI as a tool, it feels a bit like a superpower when you embrace it.

It can do so much for you.

It can also be complete crap.

Some of the stuff you can use it for is completely crap.

But AI helped me to become faster with my development.

but also like a lot of the just mundane tasks that you don't really want to do.

You know, we have clients and sometimes I might have to run a report for them and hop into a database or, you know, do even like some data entry stuff, setting up some basic things sometimes.

Like in Six Sides in the early days, we were setting up all of the events ourselves and AI and specifically MCPs, has really enabled us to be able to just think at a higher level and not down on the ground floor of actually pressing buttons and doing things like that.

So my approach to building has changed, yes.

I can now think at that higher level more about intents, outcomes, objectives, instead of like the individual steps of, okay, go here, go do this, whatever.

MCPs can kind of fill in the gap there.

Yeah, MCP certainly does empower people because they don't have to figure out what they need to click anymore.

It's more like this is what I want to do and then the computer sorted out amongst themselves, which is really cool.

Yeah, it's that intent to action flow, which we couldn't really do before and now we can.

It's amazing.