Bluesky’s new AI app can vibe-code your social feed
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In summary:
- Bluesky has unveiled Attie, an AI-powered app using Anthropic’s Claude that allows users to create personalized social feeds via natural language prompts.
- PCWorld reports that the “agent” app aims to give users more control over their social graphs on Bluesky’s decentralized atproto network.
- Although it offers advanced personalized content filtering, Attie faces resistance from users due to concerns about AI manipulation versus manual flow control.
We’ve learned a lot about how AI tools like Claude Code and Codex can code apps and web pages, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What else can you do in vibe code? Here’s an interesting possibility: your social feed.
The folks behind Bluesky just unveiled Attie, which they’re touting as the first “agent” app for atproto, the decentralized social network that’s the backbone of Bluesky and other open social services.
Much like mood coding apps like Claude Code, Codex, and Loveable, Attie (which is currently in closed beta) doesn’t present you with a thicket of drop-down menus or keyword filters (like those “What are you interested in?” buttons), but a simple chat box.
Using natural language prompts, you type in what you want to see in your social feed, from “give me art posts from people I follow and similar creators” to “show me tech news but avoid the crypto drama,” and Attie will create a social feed for you.
As Toni Schneider, interim CEO of Bluesky, described at the ATmosphere conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last weekend, Attie is more than just a social search engine.
Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Attie will let you take charge of your social graph in a way that’s not possible on closed networks like Facebook, Instagram, and X. “You control it, you shape it, without having to write code or know how to set up these feeds,” Schneider told TechCrunch. “It’s an AI product, but it’s a very people-focused AI product.”
This all sounds interesting on paper, but the very concept of Attie is rejected by users who say they joined Bluesky to avoid manipulation of their feeds by AI.
“We don’t want, we don’t need AI systems or suggestions,” one user wrote on Bluesky. “It’s a waste of resources and will ruin your user base on the platform.”
“I already had the social experience I wanted, just by following the accounts I found interesting and blocking the ones I didn’t want to hear about,” another user wrote on Reddit. “I don’t really need an LLM for that.”
Initially, Attie will be a standalone application for creating and viewing personalized social feeds, but it is anticipated that Attie’s feed creation capabilities will be rolled out to Bluesky and other atproto-enabled social services.
Better yet, Attie could pave the way for everyday users to encode their own social networks by building on Bluesky’s open AT protocol, Bluesky executives said at the ATmosphere conference.
