Citizen developers now have their own Wingman
A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks.
The company’s press release states: “The best technology should be accessible to everyone”, and cites the difficulty that users without a technical background have in creating software applications. It says that eight million founders of businesses from 190 countries have used its products to create and ship software described as production-ready.
Users of Wingman will be able to deploy a team of agents working on their behalf. “Now, anyone can have an always-on team working in the background, not just people who know how to build one,” said Mukund Jha, the co-founder and CEO of Emergent.
Wingman differentiates itself from similar platforms by dividing which tasks can be accomplished without human intervention, and which need a human’s OK to proceed with. Therefore, tasks like modifying or deleting data, or sending messages to groups, are suspended until the AI gets the go-ahead from its operator. The company defines these divisions as “trust boundaries.”
The platform can work by reading and controlling common applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessage, and can schedule tasks or have them triggered by preset events. A window of persistence (short-term context) means that users don’t have to repeat contextual instructions to the LLM for similar tasks. Connections to familiar platforms such as email, calendaring, CRMs, and GitHub come out of the box, with additional connections available from the company’s integration hub.
In concord with the platform’s easy-to-use ethos, connections between Wingman and other applications are achieved without the need to code elements such as API calls and key exchanges. This type of functionality is handled under the hood, without the users needing to be aware of the technical details.
Responses by Wingman can be adjusted in tone, so it feels like “a trusted operator rather than another tool to manage,” Emergent’s press release states.
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