McKay Wrigley
Also known as Chatbot UI, Takeoff
McKay Wrigley builds and teaches AI applications. His public work includes Chatbot UI, an open chat application with development dating to 2023. The current version uses a newer backend and offers hosted setup and local model options. Wrigley founded Takeoff AI, whose current products include AgentShare and MagicLearn. He also publishes coding experiments, videos, and commentary. A July 2025 post explored the wider role of Claude Code as an agent. His public projects give developers an application they can inspect, with setup instructions, a legacy version, and an issue history. His posts explain the tools he uses while building.
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- Takeoff AI
Timeline
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2023
An open chat interface
Chatbot UI added prompt templates, folders, answer regeneration, and GPT-4 support in March 2023. It gave developers an open application around chat models. The project’s public source made the surrounding interface and application choices available for inspection.
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2024 project structure
A wider application foundation
Chatbot UI has a newer version and legacy code. The newer version uses a Supabase backend, supports local and hosted setup, and offers optional local model access through Ollama. The migration path dates to January 2024.
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Building and teaching
Founding Takeoff AI
Wrigley founded Takeoff AI and links his videos, posts, and coding experiments. He built a public teaching practice alongside products.
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July 2025
Thinking about coding agents
In Claude Agent, Wrigley described his use of Claude Code and argued that its scope went beyond code generation. This was a personal interpretation of a tool he used.
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Current products
AgentShare and MagicLearn
Takeoff AI’s current products include AgentShare and MagicLearn.
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Current public work
Code, posts, and demonstrations
Wrigley continues to direct readers to his GitHub experiments, videos, and posts. Chatbot UI retains installation instructions and an open issue history.
Sources and credits
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