Graphical User Interface

“CLIs are over. We speed ran the CLI era. It was nice while it lasted, but I think it's pretty clear. It's not that CLI, sorry. It's not that CLIs are going to completely go away. Obviously they've been around for the last like, 30 years or 40 years or 50 years…”

“The UI is going away. And, like, I don't know about you, but I'm spending more and more of my time in codex. I'm spending more and more of my time in cloud code. Like, those have become my operating systems. So I'm spending less and less time in apps, and it's…”

“And I generally encourage them to not use the GUIs. And I encourage them to use the tweets because I just know that over time they're going to be curious and like pull at other threads. And one day they wake up and they're like, Oh, I understand more of the su…”

“The personal computer from sort of invention in 1975 through to, you know, basically 1992 was a text prompt system. I mean, 17 years in, you know, the whole industry took a left turn into GUIs and never looked back.”

“The bet here that we made was that GUI based computer use was going to be much slower to come into its own. Than terminal based use. And there's a few reasons for this. I mean, as I mentioned earlier, text is just the modality that works best with these models…”

“Is SAS going away or is the graphical user interface going away? It's not going away. There's still a lot of good use cases for it”

“So we're entering a world where it used to be that the tools get drawn in front of your face and knew how to wield them. In this new world, the tools are given to the agent and the agent wills them and decides when to use which.”

“I think we should recognize that we're in this brand new era as significant as the GUI. You know, it's like a completely new era of software development.”

“It is actually, I think, whenever you can have a GUI, it is better than to have just a pure text interface.”

“Chat as an interface onto everything, I don't think makes sense. I don't want to have to type out explicitly my instructions to get stuff done. Like sometimes I just want to click some buttons and go through a GUI and get the job done. So yeah, I don't think l…”

“Agents in five years time, I mean it's kind of gonna be, like, a non-invasive, like, brain-computer interface, basically. I think that's what an agent will be. Like, all of us are gonna be up-leveled. We're going to, you know, it's gonna feel like the same tra…”

“Chat is more of like a UX paradigm shift. So it takes, you know, what used to be a graphic, you know, graphic user interface. And turns it more into a command line.”

“It's almost more natural to a CLI than it is in a graphical user interface, because it feels like there's back and forth with the computer. Yeah. Almost funnily like a language model. So I think there's some interesting intersection of like CLIs and language m…”

“On the other hand, if you're maybe a senior citizen, You know, you simply, I mean, maybe you're interacting with technology, but you're really struggling with it, and this unlocks every product for you, potentially, so I think it's a market expansion positive …”

“And I was going to say ChatGPT has that sort of question, which is there's a whole bunch of stuff that theoretically you could ask it to do, but actually you want user interface and you want buttons and you listed, you want the list of the five previous querie…”