The Future of Apps in an AI-Coded World
AppStories
Federico Viticci
3.7 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm John Vorhez and I have Federico Viterico Vitech with me. |
| 0:18.8 | Hey, Federico. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, John. |
| 0:20.0 | How are you? |
| 0:20.7 | I'm doing great. I'm doing great. We've got a good topic today. We've got a lot of good topics. |
| 0:24.7 | But before we dig into the meat of the episode, I wanted to do a very brief little bit of follow-up with you. |
| 0:30.3 | Because we talked all about Claudebot on Max Stories Unwind of all places a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:36.0 | And then I know you also talked with Stephen and Mike |
| 0:38.9 | about it on Connected a couple of times. And I thought I would catch everybody up here as to what's |
| 0:45.7 | been going on because it's been evolving so rapidly. And AppStory seems like the best place for it. |
| 0:50.9 | We don't have to repeat everything we talked about in unwind or you talked |
| 0:54.3 | about it connected. But where is everything and what should people be thinking about this project |
| 1:01.0 | right now, I guess is why I would say. So it's been renamed twice. So obviously following the |
| 1:06.9 | original name of Claudebot, Anthropic got in touch when the project started |
| 1:12.7 | to get really popular. |
| 1:14.9 | And they asked, since the name was very similar sounding to Claude, they seemed to have |
| 1:21.1 | asked, I don't know if politely or not, for a name change. |
| 1:25.1 | And so, according to creator Peter Steinberger, at 5 a.m. |
| 1:30.2 | in a sleep-deprived sort of brainstorming session on Discord of all places. |
| 1:35.7 | The community voted for this name Maltbot. |
| 1:38.9 | Horrible name. |
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