RSECon25: Beyond Traditional Apps with LLMs

My accepted talk for RSECon25 on how Large Language Models might replace traditional app interfaces through conversational agents
Author

Cristian Dinu

Published

20 June 2025

My talk just got accepted for RSECon25 (‘RSECon25 – Ninth Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering’ 2025) in September! I’m going to share how Large Language Models (LLMs) might just ditch the need for traditional “apps” and programs.

Most software still talks in buttons, charts, forms, pop-ups. But what if you could skip them entirely and get your data or perform actions the way you talk to a person?

In the walkthrough, I’ll show how LLMs (like ChatGPT) can become your front-end, powered by a new thing called the Model Context Protocol (MCP) (‘Model Context Protocol’, n.d.). It lets you plug in real-time, structured data directly into a conversational agent.

I’ll demo how to build an MCP server, show what works (and what doesn’t), and share patterns I’ve seen when replacing traditional apps with this approach.

🗓 9 to 11 September 2025
📍 University of Warwick
🎤 RSECon25 – Ninth Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering

References

References

‘Model Context Protocol’. n.d. Anthropic. https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.
‘RSECon25 – Ninth Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering’. 2025. Society of Research Software Engineering, September. https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/.