[gmaster1440]

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.

[zeynepevecen]

That’s valid but in the bigger picture, our jobs will be evolved not seize to exist. I dont think that an average person will be able to interact with AI to build functional systems. At least not in the near future.

[visarga]

I expect MacOS to be first at implementing intents across apps, Windows to follow. Your app or website has no intent API? it is not going to play nice with the ecosystem. So you got to keep up

[danielvaughn]

For me it's both, as well as the unknown unknowns over the next 5-10 years. There's a chance that everything changes so dramatically that it feels almost worthless to commit to anything. We need some kind of term for this AI malaise.

[sghiassy]

It’s a stochastic interface. That medium isn’t applicable for a wide variety of interfaces, so there is still very much a place for boring UI with JSON over the wire

[gmaster1440]

With more capable models, reliable test time compute, and more sophisticated RAG (https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-rockset/) I genuinely struggle to see meaningful use cases for traditional user interfaces.