One of the most interesting aspects is when LLMs are cheap and small enough so that apps can ship with a builtin one so that it can adjust code for each user based on input/usage patterns.

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awepofiwaop 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The clear intent is to stop allowing regular people to be able to compute...anything. Instead, you'll be given a screen that only connects to $LLM_SERVER and the only interface will be voice/text in which you ask it to do things. It then does those things non-deterministically, and slower than they would be done right now. But at least you won't have control over how it works!

	▲	chickensong an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Weather or not the intent is as nefarious as you suggest, that type of UI is going to be a boon for a lot of people. Most people on the planet are incredibly computer illiterate.

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candiddevmike 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If this could ever happen, there will be no point in GUI apps anymore, your AI assistant or what have you will just interact with everything on your behalf and/or present you with some kind of master interface for everything.

I don't see a bunch of small agents in the future, instead just one per device or user. Maybe there will be a fleeting moment for GUI/local apps to tie into some local, OS LLM library (or some kind of WebLLM spec) to leverage this local agent in your app.

	▲	bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>If this could ever happen, there will be no point in GUI apps anymore, your AI assistant or what have you will just interact with everything on your behalf and/or present you with some kind of master interface for everything. sort of how the hammer is the most useful tool ever and all we have to do is to make every thing that needs doing look like a nail.
	▲	jdahlin 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agents will still have to communicate with each other, the communication protocols, how data is stored, presented and queried will be important for us to decide? Will we stop using web browsers as we understand them today in the next few decades in favor of only interacting with agents? Maybe.

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jazzypants 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've heard this referenced multiple times and I have yet to hear the value be clearly articulated. Are you saying that every user would eventually be using a different app? Wouldn't it eventually get to the point that negates the need for the app developer anyways since you would eventually be unable to offer any kind of support, or are we just talking design changing while the actual functionality stays the same? How would something like this actually behave in reality?

	▲	jdahlin 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know! These are valid points, taken to the extreme we will have apps that cannot be supported. In short term, we already have SQL/reports being automated. Lovable etc is experimenting with generating user interfaces from prompts, soon we will have complete working apps from a prompt. Why not have one core that you can expand via a prompt? I am currently studying and depending heavily on Anki, its been amazing to use Claude Code to add new functionality on the fly. Its a holy mess of inconsistent/broken UX but it so clearly gives me value over the core version. Sometimes it breaks, but CC can usually fix it within a prompt or two.
	▲	baal80spam 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> I've heard this referenced multiple times and I have yet to hear the value be clearly articulated. Me too, and I see this as _incredibly_ wasteful.

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a_better_world 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LISP returns!