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by yabudemada 1892 days ago
I'm surprised there is a distinction between the two at this point. What we have are "user interfaces" and both are graphical, whether it's interacting with text or graphics.

I think the main issues of usability are paradigm-independent—how do you make the UX more discoverable for text interfaces? How do you make the GUI more powerful and accessible to scripts? GUI development was introduced to make computers more tactile, and feel more life-like and accessible; and it works.

The reason Text-UIs work better for automation is that programming languages these days are text-based. How might one shift to a more graphical-programming paradigm? Machine learning I think has a lot of potential in this area and I would love to see some new work in this space.