A freeform 'improvements' box wired to an agent: toward 'liquid software'

petrusenko_max · x · 2026-11-01

A tiny feature—letting users type freeform improvement requests that an agent directly implements—can change the feel of an app: one user shipped 150 improvements in days.
The author calls this "liquid software": once you can just tell an app how to change, everything without it feels rigid and anachronistic.
Open questions: long-term maintainability, collaboration, security and reliability. The author suspects model intelligence may improve faster than feature appetite; it already works great for personal use.
It echoes Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and HyperCard—end-user-modifiable systems that never quite worked—but this small affordance genuinely shifts one's relationship with software, in a Lickliderian, Engelbartian way.

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