AI is eating UI.

AI is going to eliminate UI like TV eliminated radio

Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration.

If an LLM can't read the underlying representations and manipulate them and all of the related settings via scripting, then it also can't co-pilot your product with existing professionals and it doesn't allow vibe coding for the 100X more aspiring prosumers.

Example high risk (binary objects/artifacts, no text DSL): every Adobe product, DAWs, CAD/3D
Example medium-high risk (already partially text scriptable): Blender, Unity
Example medium-low risk (mostly but not entirely text already, some automation/plugins ecosystem): Excel
Example low risk (already just all text, lucky!): IDEs like VS Code, Figma, Jupyter, Obsidian, ...

AIs will get better and better at human UIUX (Operator and friends), but I suspect the products that attempt to exclusively wait for this future without trying to meet the technology halfway where it is today are not going to have a good time.

In most pitch decks, AI stands for “Anonymous Indians”.

The promise of AI is no UI.

Search is UI on the web, and since AI is eating UI, AI will eat search.

I aspect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.

For AI.
Against AI slop.

Actual AI is written with computer code such as Python or C++. “Super-intelligent AI” is written using PowerPoint slides.

Until such time that computers at least match human intelligence in every dimension, it will always remain possible for skeptics to say the glass is half empty. Every new achievement of AI can be dismissed by pointing out other goals that have not yet been accomplished. Indeed, this is the frustration of the AI practitioner: once an AI goal is achieved, it is no longer considered as falling within the realm of AI and become instead just a useful general technique. AI is thus often regarded as the set of problems that have not yet been solved.

on AI devices: voice for input (writing), display for output (reading)
voice-only devices like did not take off because humans absorb information way faster visually than auditory.

Remember, use AI to augment you, not replace you. Use it as an extension of your brain.

AI is the great automator, and to automate, it must first imitate.

The imitation fools people into thinking it’s alive.

AI is intelligent to the extent it can get you what you want.

AGI is intelligent to the extent it can get itself what it wants.