The Herdr website [1] has one of the best demos I have seen, one that I think would blow away those who aren’t nearly as AI-brained as I am. Why are we locked into old, boring UIs when I can just ask the agent for something like cows in a pasture or Windows 98?

[1] https://herdr.dev

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dullcrisp a day ago | parent [-]

We're not, plenty of applications support custom themes.

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nullishdomain a day ago | parent [-]

I have never used an application where I can type in anything close to "make this look like Windows 98" and it just works.

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dullcrisp a day ago | parent | next [-]

I mean one where you can say to herdr, make that look like Windows 98. Still can’t think of a good example that’s not already from Windows 98 unfortunately.

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loveparade a day ago | parent | prev [-]

For all applications that support theming you can ask an agent "make this look like windows 98"

don't quite understand how typing it into a popup instead of an agent makes it revolutionary

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nullishdomain a day ago | parent [-]

News to me, I guess. I have never seen anything like these demos. Most themes in software I use change colors or rearrange existing UI elements rather than create kanban boards and floating interactive cows where they did not exist before.

	▲	dullcrisp a day ago \| parent [-]
		Don’t get me wrong, I think having much more customizability now that maintaining complex configurations is easier is absolutely the direction we should be headed in. I don’t think floating cows are going to be the ultimate goal, but it is a step in that direction. But this sort of theming specifically is something that was experimented with a couple decades ago and given up because people wanted simplicity and consistency instead. It’ll be exciting if LLMs reverse the trend.