Recently Apple released a tool called 'Container'. Yes, that's right. So, we checked it out and it seemed better than Docker as it provided one isolated VM per container – a perfect fit for running AI generated code.
This is more than a just an experiment. It's a philosophy shift bringing compute and agency back to your machine. No cloud dependency. No privacy tradeoffs. While the best models will probably be always with the giants, we hope that we will still have local tools which can get our day-to-day work done with the privacy we deserve.
Instead of your app being a fancy form that sends data to a server, it has it’s own local database. Sometimes the server is just another client to sync with. It can be a fundamental inversion of how we typically build web applications.
If you’re building something new and can work within the constraints, I encourage you to try local-first. The worst case is you’ll learn a new architecture pattern. The best case is you’ll build something that feels impossibly fast to your users.