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I Stopped Building Frontends. Now I Use MCP Servers to Let AI Run My Apps

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It’s 2025, and the way we build applications has fundamentally changed.

Not in theory. Not someday. It’s happening right now.

I used to spend hours wiring up UIs, gluing together components, and chasing pixel-perfect layouts. Then I discovered something that made me rethink everything I knew about app development:

You don’t need a frontend anymore.
You need an AI that becomes your frontend.

APIs Are No Longer Just Endpoints, They’re Interfaces for AI

Every app you’ve ever built, whether web, mobile, or desktop runs on internal and external APIs.

Internal APIs manage your app’s routes, logic, and business operations.
External APIs offer third-party services like Google Maps, Stripe, OpenWeather, etc.

Traditionally, a frontend acts as a bridge between the user and these APIs.

But now, thanks to something called MCP (Model Control Protocol), that bridge is disappearing.

MCP allows you to turn APIs into agent-controllable tools. An AI agent, powered by large language models like GPT-4o or Claude 4, can now…

Interesting perspective on chat based agents interfacing with agents. But I still think the UI is needed for the good UX experience and providing better choices to user to execute their own choices. Human brain is most precious asset by with its own…

Yep, doing that as well.

I actually built MCP that has access to run processes so it can be used to control something like github cli client and deploy github pages, setup ci/cd github actions and do almost anything else with github :D

Check that out

https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP

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I Stopped Building Frontends. Now I Use MCP Servers to Let AI Run My Apps

APIs Are No Longer Just Endpoints, They’re Interfaces for AI

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