This is a question of whether ergonomics will continue matter at all in the future. I would guess ergonomics will always matter.
I take your point, and I even would go further to say that many GUIs don't need to exist at all. If the machine understands your goal then everything can happen invisibly. The software should disappear.
However, I see these bespoke just-in-time UIs being primarily useful for one-time tasks or project-specific software that has brief utility.
If the tool is being used repeatedly then it wants to conform to the user and task in a repeatable way. This is where design, engineering, and dare I say "taste", comes in. You don't want an interface to change every time you use it.
Most people are not alone in their needs, and their collective need forms a market.
Recurring usage is an evolutionary pressure that pushes a tool to fit the purpose and the market.
The mirage of on-demand digital everything is very seductive. I saw it disappoint so many people in my industrial design and manufacturing career. There is an allure to digital manufacturing methods (like 3D printing) because you can change the output every time. But those manufacturing methods have can never compete on cost efficiency, predictability, refinement, polish. The benefits of tooling are so enormous that everyone immediately switches to those methods if the product has any scale. The critical mass is surprisingly small.
Even in a world of agentic code factories where the customer may be human or agent, you will see autonomous structures align themselves around repeatable methods, predictable tooling, and ergonomically consistent interfaces. They too will have cost pressures, presumably being the support agents and supply chain operators in this world.
Humans are fundamentally social, and have relatively similar needs to one another. For that reason there will always be a need for tools and objects, whether physical or virtual, that are ergonomically and evolutionarily fit to a specific cohort.
@ZubinTehe@obsdmd CLI is better than MCP
- faster
- direct access to your local files
- no need for a server/auth
- easier for both humans and agents to access and explore
- composable with pipes e.g. cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
It's heartbreaking to see a hit-piece written about my friend Andrew Huberman (@hubermanlab). I know him very well, and can definitively say that he is a great human being, scientist, and educator. Hit-piece attacks like this are simply trash click-bait journalism desperately clinging on to relevance.
Andrew should be celebrated. Period. His podcast has helped millions of people (including me) lead healthier lives. Keep going brother! 👊
Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers
Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization
Introducing https://t.co/PyTl16ORXJ 🚀
New retriever implementations for RAG are always popping up and it is hard to know which is best
Our new arena lets you compare retrievers side by side and vote for a winner
Inspired by @lmsysorg and built with @langchain + @nextjs
@ThePrimeagen@levelsio Also deadlift is a big compound movement that can tax your nervous system a lot, so don't rush between the sets. This is not endurance training.
@ThePrimeagen@levelsio You'll be able to deadlift 100kg in no time. In the beginning just getting use to the movement can get you there in a few month.
@ashu_trv Very interesting project. Is this using Assembly AI for transcribing ? The transcript seems very similar in quality (by that I mean really good, much better than on SnipD)