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by compressedgas 128 days ago
You want to have Proactive Computing https://cacm.acm.org/research/proactive-computing/ (David Tennenhouse, 2000), not to get rid of interfaces which is something that can't be done as you will always have an interface, even if it is only in the form of an API, not wrapped up for any specific use, that has representations and actions, that the agents will need be be able to do anything.
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Thanks for the Tennenhouse link, definitely ahead of his time on Proactive Computing. You're right that 'Post-Interface' is a rhetorical hook. We can't eliminate the technical interface (APIs/protocols). My argument is about eliminating the cognitive interface for the end user. Right now, even our smartest agents are still reactive because they wait for a prompt. I see generative UI as the bridge to true proactivity: instead of a static dashboard waiting for input, the system constructs a temporary UI only when it senses intent via context/API. The goal isn't no interface, but zero friction interface where the UI is a generated byproduct of the agent's action, not a prerequisite for it.