Shah: AI shifts software UX from imperative steps to declarative outcomes
Dharmesh Shah · Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) · Mar 30, 2023 · at 11:21
HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah explains to Sam Parr and Sean Puri why text-to-code models represent a fundamental paradigm shift in software user interfaces.
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“An imperative model is you give step-by-step instructions that says do this and then do this and then do this and then do this. And then I get the thing. What natural language allows us to do is use, ah, what developers would call a declarative model. Instead of describing all the steps, describe the result you want at the end of the thing. And then the software does everything in between.”
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