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I wrote up what I meant by this jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensi...

So… my app should be like Salesforce or my app which is just a bundle of capabilities should ride on a platform like Salesforce? I read the thing. It lays out a pretty good account of how software that evolves to the level of abstraction that it does nothing. This treadmill seems to be a constant.

Salesforce has an architecture where it allows the user to add their own logic across many extension points. They had to build their own language and built their data logic into it. Today you have more options, but I think this architecture is a good fit for LLM-enabled users

This doesn't mean the software does nothing! The core provides the structure and guarantees that the extensions rely on. Think about Pi's core, or Obsidian's.

You can also take this to more or less extremes. Simple extensions like "when X happens I want to respond to it" that are basically a replacement for webhooks would also be super useful by themselves