Imagine a personal assistant that doesn't just answer your questions, but when it needs a new dashboard to explain something clearly, it goes and builds that dashboard itself.
That's exactly what a new tool called Panel is offering, launched today on Hacker News under Show HN.
It's described as a research workspace where the AI agent works beside you, not just for you.
Everything you need, chat, files, PDFs, and notebooks, lives in one unified dock.
But here's the twist: if the agent decides the existing tools aren't enough to explain something properly, it can build its own custom viewer or mini app on the fly.
Instead of you deciding what tool the AI should use, the AI decides what interface best fits the task at hand.
The project is still early. Expect rough edges, and the developer is openly asking testers to raise issues as they find them.
But what makes it worth watching is how it flips the usual question. Instead of asking 'what tool do I build for the AI to use?', it asks 'what if I just give the AI room to build what it needs, on its own?'
That's a small shift in design, but a genuinely big shift in what's possible.
🔗 Original Source & Reference: https://github.com/greentfrapp/panel
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