The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applications as the human interface evolves towards conversational, intent-driven interactions with AI.

Vast majority of all apps are just tables, forms, and JSON over the wire—I don't see that continuing to be the case for much longer.

AI is not just any one thing. In the grand view, looking ahead a hundred years, AI will seem like it embedded itself in everything everywhere all at once. AI will take the hardest effort to embed itself in lower-level high-efficiency systems such as the OS kernel, but even there, it makes its presence known by code generation.

Yes, AI as an information interface is still an underrated and underused idea despite us having seen it function over the past couple of years. The question then is, what's the best LLM driven frontend that could be an alternative to React or Django or Laravel, etc.? It would be used to serve a customer-facing application. In the simplest case, I think something like Streamlit or Gradio, or something in this class, could offer a conversational UI.

Yep, and I would have been really excited about this if it wasn't that they're hidden away behind an internet required api that can be taken away from you with rate limits.

We went from CLIs to GUIs to touchscreens and we will see more and more of MCBs, multimodal chatbot, where the interaction is done by text, voice, maybe even other on the future. AI is just the “software” that enables those interfaces, not the interface per se.

Looking forward to the day when we refer to this interface as an example of psychotronics.