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One Dashboard for Everything: Why 2026 Will Be the Year of Less UI

Since Anthropic released MCP, I've been funneling all my contexts into one AI interface. My prediction for 2026: we're going to be working with a lot less UI.
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Passing knowledge forward, quietly. One interface instead of many. (Source: Midjourney)

I’ve been on a constant pursuit to funnel everything through one UI. Juggling different platforms, logging into separate dashboards, dealing with unfamiliar edit interfaces, switching between products. It’s draining. It feels unnecessary.

Since Anthropic released Model Context Protocol (MCP), I’ve gone neck-deep into figuring out how to bring all my different contexts into one AI and let it work for me through a single control panel. This is my one dashboard for everything.

Sometimes it’s Claude Code. Most of the time, when I’m doing general content work, research, analysis, or both pulling information down and pushing it up, I use Claude Desktop. I love it. Remote MCPs, local MCPs, content optimization. It handles the majority of my content creation and creative output. It’s where I think through ideas, workshop them, generate them, copy-edit them into different formats, and then post them.

The Workflow in Action

Right now, I’m recording this with Wispr Flow. I dictate what I want to say. Claude distills that stream of consciousness into actual editorial content people want to read. It’s still from my brain. My mouth. My ideas, thoughts, and concepts. The AI just helps me get them out of my head and into a form that communicates clearly.

By leveraging the Southleft MCP, I can dictate and create not just articles but highly curated content with flexible layouts. Move Gutenberg blocks around. Edit fields in the block editor. Turn posts into drafts. Update metadata. Delete posts. Add tags. Recategorize. Create a homepage. Delete a homepage. The capabilities are pretty remarkable.

Here’s a demo of this exact workflow in action:

My Prediction for 2026

We’re going to be working with less UI. This workflow I’m describing right now is going to become more common. It’s worth paying attention to because we’re already applying it at Southleft beyond just posting content.

We’re doing this with LinkedIn. We’re doing this with our time tracking in Harvest. The pattern is the same: bring the context into one interface, let the AI do the work, push the results back out.

This is the beginning of something bigger. One dashboard. Less friction. More output.

P.S. Yes, that YouTube thumbnail is ridiculous. I apologize for the high drama, but apparently this is what YouTube likes. It was generated using our vibe-coded YouTube Thumbnail Generator, which is free to use if you want to make your own over-the-top thumbnails.