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by skc 255 days ago
How likely is it that the end game becomes that we stop writing apps for actual human users and instead sites become massive walls of minified text against a black screen.
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If some functionality isn't used directly by humans why not expose it as an API?

If you're asking how likely it is that all human-computer interaction will take place via lengthy natural language conversations then my guess is no.

Visualising information and pointing at things is just too useful to replace it with what is essentially a smart command line interface.

Hopefully we get entirely off the internet.
It is all just data. It doesn't need to be rendered to become input.
Actually a few startups working on this! You should check out Stytch isAgent SDK.

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