Bluesky’s new AI app can vibe-code your social feed
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In abstract:
- PCWorld experiences that Bluesky has unveiled Attie, an AI-powered app utilizing Anthropic’s Claude mannequin to customise social feeds by natural-language prompts.
- Customers can create customized feeds with instructions like “give me artwork posts from folks I comply with,” permitting them to “vibe-code” their social networks.
- At present in closed beta as a standalone app, Attie faces consumer backlash over AI manipulation considerations regardless of providing enhanced feed management.
We’ve been seeing lots about how AI instruments like Claude Code and Codex can vibe-code apps and net pages, however that’s simply the tip of the iceberg. What else are you able to vibe code? Right here’s an attention-grabbing chance: your social feed.
The parents behind Bluesky simply unveiled Attie, which it’s billing as the primary “agentic” app for atproto, the decentralized social community that’s the spine of Bluesky and different open social providers.
Similar to such vibe-coding apps as Claude Code, Codex, and Loveable, Attie (which is at present in closed beta) presents you not with a thicket of drop-down menus or key phrase filters (like these “what are you curious about?” buttons), however a easy chat field.
Utilizing natural-language prompts, you sort what you need to see in your social feed, something from “give me artwork posts from folks I comply with plus related creators” to “present me tech information however skip the crypto drama,” and Attie will construct a social feed for you.
As described by interim Bluesky CEO Toni Schnieder on the ATmosphere Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia this previous weekend, Attie is greater than only a social search engine.
Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Attie will allow you to take cost of your social graph in ways in which aren’t potential on closed networks like Fb, Instagram, and X. “You management it, you form it, with out having to put in writing code or know easy methods to arrange these feeds,” Schneider informed TechCrunch. “It’s an AI product, however it’s an AI product that’s very people-focused.”
All of it sounds attention-grabbing on paper, however the entire idea of Attie is getting pushback from customers who say they joined Bluesky to keep away from AI manipulation of their feeds.
“We don’t need, we don’t want AI programs or ideas,” wrote one consumer on Bluesky. “It’s a waste of sources and can bitter your consumer base on the platform.”
“I already acquired the social expertise I needed, just by following the accounts I discover attention-grabbing and blocking these I’m not fascinated by listening to from,” wrote one other consumer on Reddit. “Don’t really want an LLM for that.”
Initially, Attie shall be a standalone app for creating and viewing personalized social feeds, however the plan is for Attie’s feed-building talents to roll out to Bluesky and different atproto-compatible social providers.
Even higher, Attie may pave the way in which for on a regular basis customers to vibe-code their very own social networks on high of Bluesky’s open AT Protocol, Bluesky execs mentioned on the ATmosphere convention.

