Clippy lives

gm legends, happy Monday.

Here’s today’s lineup: Mico gives Microsoft Copilot a face (and if you click it enough times, Clippy makes a comeback); v0 for iOS lets you build and ship apps straight from your phone; and Metorial Starbase makes testing MCP servers as easy as pasting a URL and chatting with your agent.

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Mico is Microsoft Copilot’s animated avatar for voice. It reacts in real time, adds expression to replies, and sits alongside your usual Copilot features so talking to the model feels less sterile and more present. 

🔥 Our Take: This is Microsoft giving Copilot a personality without turning it into a cartoon. The fun bit: keep tapping Mico and it flips into Clippy for a second. A tiny wink to the 90s that somehow makes the whole thing feel less cold.

Alex Cloudstar asks: “Do you think early users care about design or just function?”

Most commentators think function wins every time. Users want to know if it fills their need, and they don’t need it to look pretty. But. There’s a caveat. The design can’t be bad. As Curtis writes, “If the design makes it confusing or slows them down, they’ll drop it fast.”

And. There’s another caveat. Different early adopters want different things. Peter says that if you’re building for users from less-technical backgrounds, start thinking about design early.

v0 for iOS brings Vercel’s AI coding tool to your phone. You can describe what you want to build, tweak the design, and ship ideas straight from your pocket. It’s the same engine as the desktop version, just a lot more portable.

🔥 Our Take: It’s kind of wild seeing real code run on your phone. v0 makes those random “what if” ideas actually buildable before you forget them. No setup, no waiting,  just code wherever you are, even if that’s half-asleep on the couch.

Starbase gives you a browser-based playground for MCP servers. Drop in your server URL, pick either ChatGPT or Claude, and start chatting through your integration. It’s open-source, zero installation, and built for people who’d rather debug than deal with build scripts.

🔥Our Take: Developer mode isn’t supposed to be polished. Starbase embraces that. You don’t spin up containers or fiddle with CLIs just to see if your tools work. You paste a URL, chat with an agent, catch bugs live, and move on.