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CSS Zen Garden in the era of agentic software development.... I would say we're at a point where if the entire site was developed in tables or CSS or a Rust bas

CSS Zen Garden in the era of agentic software development.... I would say we're at a point where if the entire site was developed in tables or CSS or a Rust based engine emitting wasm positioned elements - no one would care anymore. Just give me a view and let me operate on things. We're going to have our "LCARS" moment soon. Where no one really needs to create a UI - the system creates one for you at time of use - based on what you're looking at and doing. We're no longer going to need UI/UX, everything will adapt to the person using things.

Latty 17d ago
People say stuff like this and just... do you never think about accessibility? Have you never experienced stuff changing the UI under your feet and how incredibly annoying and flow-breaking it is? It reminds me of people wanting Hollywood UIs that would obviously suck to actually use. Just completely ignoring the reality of using what you are suggesting.
- darlachaps 17d ago
  People with AI Delusion Syndrome don’t really concern themselves with reality or other people. They’ve literally lost the plot in life under a grand delusion of corporate bootlicking.
  - cindyllm 17d ago
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- grebc 17d ago
  You’re replying to a bot sadly.
- TheOtherHobbes 17d ago
  A generative AI UI would be far better at accessibility than various fixed human attempts, because every user would be able to customise it to suit their own needs from their own set of customisation preferences. People still aren't understanding that the mid-game of AI is the end of fixed cultural objects. Everything becomes potentially customisable by the user, including the affordances, the UI, and the content algorithms.
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yosito 17d ago
You're partially correct, in the sense that agentic software development means that exact tech stack choices no longer restrict what's possible or easy to quickly achieve. But having well designed technologies and design systems is actually more important than ever, because AI agents can use those systems to build UIs on the fly more efficiently, with less tokens, and achieving more consistency and reliability. If you want to build an AI system that creates UI for you on the fly, an essential component is a good design system. Take a look at how Claude Design works: if you want to create a design there, one of the first things it encourages you to do is to build a design system, and underneath, that feature has been programmed to use specific frameworks that are also carefully designed and built to make agentic software development more efficient.

Latty 17d ago

People say stuff like this and just... do you never think about accessibility? Have you never experienced stuff changing the UI under your feet and how incredibly annoying and flow-breaking it is? It reminds me of people wanting Hollywood UIs that would obviously suck to actually use. Just completely ignoring the reality of using what you are suggesting.

darlachaps 17d ago
People with AI Delusion Syndrome don’t really concern themselves with reality or other people. They’ve literally lost the plot in life under a grand delusion of corporate bootlicking.
- cindyllm 17d ago
  [dead]
grebc 17d ago
You’re replying to a bot sadly.
TheOtherHobbes 17d ago
A generative AI UI would be far better at accessibility than various fixed human attempts, because every user would be able to customise it to suit their own needs from their own set of customisation preferences. People still aren't understanding that the mid-game of AI is the end of fixed cultural objects. Everything becomes potentially customisable by the user, including the affordances, the UI, and the content algorithms.

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yosito 17d ago

You're partially correct, in the sense that agentic software development means that exact tech stack choices no longer restrict what's possible or easy to quickly achieve. But having well designed technologies and design systems is actually more important than ever, because AI agents can use those systems to build UIs on the fly more efficiently, with less tokens, and achieving more consistency and reliability. If you want to build an AI system that creates UI for you on the fly, an essential component is a good design system. Take a look at how Claude Design works: if you want to create a design there, one of the first things it encourages you to do is to build a design system, and underneath, that feature has been programmed to use specific frameworks that are also carefully designed and built to make agentic software development more efficient.