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by tkiolp4 110 days ago
My point is: such apps wouldn’t need to exist if agents can provide in the future the same functionality for a fraction of the cost. Sure if ticketmaster is here to stay forever and keep their app up to date, we can keep using it. But what about new products? Would companies decide to build a single fixed app that all the users have to use, instead of, well, not building it? Sure the functionality would still need to be provided by the company (e.g., like offered in the form of an api), so they keep getting profit.

It’s like we usually say: companies should focus on their core value. And typically the ui/ux is not the core value of companies.
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asenchi 110 days ago
So we burn the planet up to deploy individually craft UIs on demand? I mean, I've read your comment three times, and I just don't see it. If we end up in that future, we're doomed.
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slopinthebag 110 days ago
> And typically the ui/ux is not the core value of companies

Huh? The user experience is basically ALL of the core product of a company.

If it's so easy for an AI to create ticket purchasing software that people can generate it themselves, then it's also true that the company can also use AI to generate that software for users who then don't need to generate it themselves. Obviously I think neither of these things are true or likely to happen.

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tkiolp4 110 days ago
> Huh? The user experience is basically ALL of the core product of a company.

Thats the case now, but I think it’s because there’s no other way around it nowadays. But if agents in the future provide a better or more natural ui/ux for many use cases, then companies core value will shift more into their inner core (which in software translates typically to the domain model)

> If it's so easy for an AI to create ticket purchasing software that people can generate it themselves, then it's also true that the company can also use AI to generate that software for users who then don't need to generate it themselves.

I think the generation of software per se will be transparent to the user. Users won’t think in terms of software created but wishes their agents make true.

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