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Agents are going to change everything. Once we've got a solid programmatic system driving interface and people get better about exposing non-ui handles for age
by CuriouslyC 1y ago
Agents are going to change everything. Once we've got a solid programmatic system driving interface and people get better about exposing non-ui handles for agents to work with programs, agents will make apps obsolete. You're going to have a device that sits by your desk and listens to you, watches your movements and tracks your eyes, and dispatches agents to do everything you ask it to do, using all the information it's taking in along with a learned model of you and your communication patterns, so it can accurately predict what you intend for it to do.
If you need an interface for something (e.g. viewing data, some manual process that needs your input), the agent will essentially "vibe code" whatever interface you need for what you want to do in the moment.
- alexpotato 1y agoThe technology for this has been around for the past 10 years but it's still not a reality, what makes AI the kicker here? e.g. Alexa for voice, REST for talking to APIs, Zapier for inter-app connectdness. (not trying to be cynical, just pointing out that the technology to make it happen doesn't seem to be the blocker)
- CuriouslyC 1y agoAlexa is trash. If you have to basically hold an agent's hand through something or it either fails or does something catastrophic nobody's going to use or trust it. REST is actually a huge enabler for agents for sure, I think agents are going to drive everyone to have at least an API, if not a MCP, because if I can't use your app via my agent and I have to manually screw around in your UI, and your competitor lets my agent do work so I can just delegate via voice commands, who do you think is getting my business?
- jrm4 1y agoThis isn't likely to happen for roughly the same reason Hypercard didn't become the universal way for novices to create apps.
- CuriouslyC 1y agoI probably spend 80% of my time in front of a computer driving agents, challenge accepted :)
- lordhumphrey 1y agoMarshall McLuhan called, he said to ask yourself, who's driving who?
- CuriouslyC 1y ago"We shape our tools, and therefore, our tools shape us." Ironically the outro of a YouTube video I just watched. I'm just a few hundred ms of latency away from being a cyborg.
- hn_acc1 1y agoSo basically, the "ideal" state of a human is to be 100% active driving agents to vibe code whatever you need, based on every movement, every thought? Can our brains even handle having every thought being intentional and interpreted as such without collapsing (nervous breakdown)? I guess I've always been more of a "work to live" type.
- coke12 1y agoConsider that a subset of us programmer types pride themselves on never moving their hands off the keyboard. They are already "wired in" so to speak.