Don't Add AI to Your App — Add Your App to AI

Please throw the AI button in the trash. If you bring AI into your software, be kind enough to make your content and functionality accessible so that any AI tool can work with it.

A boardroom scene where an excited boss points at a presentation screen showing a word processor with a glowing AI button, while dreading employees sit silently around the table. — *"Let's add it to every program. I want the users to know we're an AI company."*

Google Docs is not the right place for a Gemini button. It just gets in the way. Try integrating Google Docs with Claude Code or another AI coding agent — documents with tabs don’t work, and the API is a maze. Do it for the whole team, and it’s a nightmare. Instead of bolting Gemini onto the sidebar, make all of Drive accessible so that any AI tool can read and write documents — easily.

Word is not the right place for a Copilot button. I want to tweak my document styles by prompting in my own tools. Ship a CLI interface. Wrap it in MCP. Publish a document format that an LLM can actually read and edit — not incomprehensible XML inside a zip file. Make styles editable by AI, not just point-and-click.

Don’t add an AI button to email clients. Let AI read your inbox and write drafts.¹ That’s all it takes. The AI button in the compose window that rephrases your text is a toy. Full access to read, search, and draft is the real integration.

If you don’t make your software accessible to AI, you’ll be replaced by software that is.

Not send — just draft. The human hits send. ↩