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The hate against chat interfaces is missing the real opportunity here. Consider the calendar interface the article describes: that we've managed to actually mak
by kevmo314 2y ago
The hate against chat interfaces is missing the real opportunity here. Consider the calendar interface the article describes: that we've managed to actually make it function within chat means we've roughly automated pretty much everything except the human interaction that's left. That's pretty amazing!
The article goes on to claim that hybrid UI's are the future. I disagree, the future is figuring out how to automate prompt generation so I don't need to even interface with the UI to begin with. Hybrid UI's are a patch over something that can't be efficiently automated yet.
The opportunity is the "yet".
- sumeno 2y agoWhat does this even mean? What do these magical AIs with no interface do?
- kevmo314 2y agoInfer what you're doing already based on your actions. To take a concrete example from the article, the Cursor screenshot includes a prompt "Please refactor these components ..." When was the last time I told an engineer on my team to do that? They automatically do that because they feel like it's a good idea. That's a no-interface magical AI.
- sumeno 2y agoAn AI that refactors with no human interaction sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. I don't want to be anywhere near a codebase where that's enabled