I'm imagining a world where an AI-first phone is presented for the first time. Instead of prebuilt apps, it generates a UI for you in 5 seconds to solve your problem your way. And it works. It's fast. It's reliable.

It'll make the iPhone look like Blackberry.

And let's say that Apple wants to respond with their own AI-first phone. But wait, they don't have the model. They don't have the compute. Most of their employees only know the old way of doing things. It'll be like GM trying to compete against Tesla or BYD in EVs. Their whole workforce and skills are in ICE.

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awongh 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the idea of "everything being generated for you on the spot" is a bit overstated - no matter how intelligent the AI gets.

Just simply because interfaces need to be crafted, and they're a design language that you learn over time. And most likely everyone needs the same things 90% of the time anyways.

When I step into my car I don't need the heating button to move closer if it's cold. I just want to learn where it is once and use it when I need to for x number of months / time of day.

That also goes for things like films and music - most of the time we actually want to be seeing and hearing the same things as everyone else (for some different definitions of "everyone"), not something that's made for us.

	▲	waisbrot 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The Rabbit R1 experimented with AI-gen UI on the fly. It was fun as a toy (you could customize your UI theme to anything), but not useful as an actual user interface because it was inconsistent. Sometimes you'd get a progress bar, sometimes a percentage, sometimes a table of sub-tasks and their current status, etc.
	▲	aurareturn 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		An AI will decide to generate a UI for you on the spot if it thinks it's the best way to solve your problem. Or it will just do the task for you in the background instead. Generating a UI to solve a specific problem of yours is just an example. I can't be the only one who has ever used an app and thought, man I wish they added this or moved the button to this, or fixed this stupid UI bug.