User Interface

“And I think that's where the UI is going to start to really continue to evolve, is how do we make, if you're If you come at this, and you're a designer, maybe chat should actually really look differently look different, or have different affordances. Or you're…”

“I think the future are not apps, the future agents, but I don't think they're going to be text forward. I think they're going to be really rich user interface.”

“Even though I think that you'll just increasingly tell your agent what to do instead of be clicking around or, you know, touching the screen, you still need a dashboard or a user interface to like check on it and just see readouts of information.”

“There's a thing you can do in their UI. I can't do in their API. And I'm literally about the churn because I'm just like, this is critical for me. And now it feels archaic for me to go and interact with your fucking, like UI to do this outcome, like output tha…”

“And really, I think that's why we stayed in the CLI is because we felt there is no UI we could build that would still be relevant in six months because the model was improving so quickly.”

“And an AI agent doesn't want to use a website. It doesn't want to use UI. It doesn't want to browse things. What you would do is you would build it API calls that it can curl, and so the news feed and all the ways it interacts and it browses would all be throu…”

“The lesson of all tech is that loads and loads of geeks compete through, for technological numerical superiority by some measure or other, And then someone else comes along with a cute user interface and makes all the money. It's basically Steve Jobs. Yeah. No…”

“I still think there's a place for the user interface that has, you know, well-crafted inputs for you to get something done. Like, I still think that beats chat interfaces in many cases.”

“Product managers are effectively glorified UI managers, so we're trying to make sure that us common folks can interact with data and some sort of engineering algorithm behind it because we're not smart enough to talk to the engineering algorithm ourselves.”

“The future of products being about composability and not the canvas. And I think that product makers really need to rewire their mindset around this because I think we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the UI of something rather than how someth…”

“We think the biggest shift this year is going to be that even that element won't happen, and therefore elements of the user interface we think will be less important. In other words, these tasks will happen Entirely autonomously. You know, as you arrive in the…”

“And then, you know, one thing I will note kind of harkening back to a last response is that even if you had something you could talk to that was human level at coding, Or faster and better, better than a human at coding, you know, sort of the skill of an entir…”

“All of programming is going to flow through these models. It's going to look very different in the future. You're going to need to control the UI.”

“All of our user interfaces so far have been truly transactional interfaces, right? Like I click a button, the computer does something transactional and deterministic. That constraint has basically gone away.”

“Like, ultimately, no matter how good the AI is, If you're buying a hotel room, if you're buying a physical product, if you're doing anything that requires visuals like pictures or a map, you're going to need a UI. That's fundamentally required, right? It doesn…”

“Eventually you will be able to use a model to use another model. So your, that your preferred model, if you want to do something with another model, but you say, Hey go find the best model to do this task or like create this type of content and it'll just do i…”

“Look, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and Gmail and Apple mail and everything is just gonna have these swipes and snoozes and it's just gonna be part of the UI is not a good, or it's not a durable source of advantage.”

“And I think that the interfaces will get more sophisticated. But also even if they don't, I suspect that it's just like any new media type when it's introduced, it's not like the old media types go away, right? Just because you have TikTok doesn't mean that yo…”

“If we designed for broadband, like the, if it's a compelling enough user interface, it will actually cause broadband to happen.”

“Well, so I think the thing that's really underappreciated out of the LLM is like people think of it as like this Oracle or something like that, but I think it's maybe at least for us, I think of it as a UI.”

“If I'm right, it's going away because I'm gonna say it's all going to be like speech. I'm just going to talk. We're going to have a conversation. The apps are going to run in the background and AI will orchestrate. You can see somebody like Microsoft pilot. Th…”

“Even if it's true that a new form of interaction is via chat interfaces, which I'm not even sure I believe, but if, even if we take that as a prior on the no priors podcast, then I think that you still have UI and actually I think you have more UI and more sof…”

“I don't think that the previous human computer interaction paradigms are going away. For instance, look at, like, the command line interface. That was one of the original ways to interact with computers. Like, people are still using command line interfaces tod…”

“Now AI is the product and the UI is there to help the AI to capture better signal.”

“It wasn't really the algorithm of TikTok. It was the UI that maximized what was, you know, pretty traditional export export algorithm, like since the day so hot or not.”

“I mean, there's a bunch of use cases where it doesn't matter how good the model is, a chatbot is just not the right interface.”

“Like, that's what I mean by it's actually giving you more UI, not less, because it's uncertain about what it is that you actually want. So it needs to give you more choices.”

“There would be a new generation of user interfaces that haven't fully been invented yet, but we will look at all of the screens of the applications we use every day as dinosaurs in less than three years.”

“I would say that for certain use cases, that's entirely true. Like if I have a UI to configure a cluster, like I don't need to know all the options. I just can specify what I want. There are many use cases where You may want a richer way to interact with data …”

“One that I've been thinking a lot about is UIs don't matter as much.”

“It's like one of the consequences of a hack we had a number of months ago was that I had an engineer who could build a feature in a couple hours that we had previously scoped. It was on the roadmap. It was a feature that was going to take like two months and t…”

“As soon as you move away from make this shot better, you're probably moving away from a prompt box, and you're probably moving to buttons, and switches, and options, and palettes, and lists of possibilities, and a screen that says, okay, here are six different…”

“Typing is almost always a sign of, like, a UI failure, because most people don't have that many different use cases for whatever that product is, so, like, just help them out by just giving them a few buttons that they can tap.”

“I hate when anyone says, just do this, just go change the UI on your product. And that's always strikes me as like that person has never sat in my shoes and I am never be able to convince them that, yeah, do you know what it's like to change the UI on an enter…”

“The ideal for a dishwasher, where you don't have to worry about, like, different fabrics, is absolutely, you should just shut the thing and press go, and that should be it, and there shouldn't be any settings at all, and the rest of it should be the chips prob…”

“You could have the best technology, but if it's not wrapped in a nice user interface that people have fun and, you know, they're comfortable using, it's never gonna get deployed. It's never gonna work.”

“If you have someone in, like, this lower part of the UI, And you've given them a hint about, oh, this is how you open this menu down here. They will not see something that happens outside of roughly like a coffee cup sized area around it, and that's often the …”

“So I think what ends up happening over time as technology gets better is that We enter a world where the consumer has to do less work to get the result. And then I think as a result, interfaces are going to start to shift from interfaces where I input informat…”