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- Drop the "G". The best UI for AI Agents is a physical UI (not a graphical UI). Do something like PikaCube [0] and disrupt the mouse.by ckmar
- I think it should look like this: https://www.dreamcoder.ai/
A smart, tiling window manager with workspaces and a great tool harness. An everything app, if you may; bring the terminals, code reviews, etc. into the tool itself, and make it high fidelity: no blocky terminals for the app itself.
by mickeyp - Lost me at having to click to use particular toolsby johngoode
- I think there is going to be an intersection between a personal operational dashboard like this and the UI for an AI Company.
I've been predicting for awhile that 2026 is the year of the AI Employee (or serious attempts) and 2027 is AI Companies.
I have been seeing RFPs recently asking for end-to-end solutions to operate companies in particular industries with the goal of day-to-day only requiring infrequent human-in-the-loop.
Anyway, if you think about what for example some professionals might use a Marble like tool for, say managing their freelance business. You might want to create a task and then promote it to be scheduled and then have that artifact like a report have a dedicated place on the screen.
The difference with a vertical is that you will know a lot of the reports and data types you need ahead of time. The advantage with just prompting things dynamically as you go is you get exactly what you need and don't have to sort through a bunch of features that aren't important to you.
Even though a business vertical is qualitatively different, you still might use the same system to build it. Maybe something like a self organizing AirTable. A set of projects as departments.
Sorry I started rambling nevermind.
by ilaksh - It does feel novel.
However, I believe the GUI for AI agents that will win is a plain text editor with a file tree, a terminal pane for coding (or preview pane for other kinds of tasks) and a chat sidebar.
Even if the code editor is not used to type, it's there for psychological safety. It lets you inspect and navigate what is being created. Has tremendous value.
Plain text has survived countless software revolutions, so it's likely to become the dominant format for artifacts produced by AI. Non-plain text things are likely to adapt instead of the other way around.
"Strange terminal commands" have survived, while even poweruser toolbar style have started to fade (I love them, but they're fading away). It clearly has some value (hint: speed over familiarity).
I think the poweruser toolbar style was indeed the only thing in the past couple of decades that really tried to match the terminal for speed of interaction. In my opinion, it succeeded, but it has its limits too (tends to clump with stuff over time; has a limit on the amount of abstractions it can hold). I would love to see a candidate GUI that tackles that speed angle.
by gaigalas - Best interface in my opinion is a git tracked folder, files as state, agents coming in and doing work. It's not just a chat interface because in chat mode everything flows like water under the bridge. It is files as agents, where you get the agent to write a task in a file, and then it updates the file like a blackboard as it performs work. Same task file can be seen by worker agent, multiple judge agents (for plan and implementation), documentation agents and reflexion agents (improve workflow). I would also track every user message in a chat_log.md for reflexion agents (what is wrong with the workflow) and intent review (is the agent still following user intent?).by visarga
- I completely agree with you that the chat interface is very undercooked and there's a big untapped space for agent-first interfaces, perhaps even replacing traditional desktop metaphors. You're spot on with your premise.
With that said, from the material you show in your homepage, it still seems like you're doing something very similar to OpenAI and Anthropic's first party apps? I think it would help your pitch if you could show some task or workflow where your interface truly makes a difference; loading files and asking questions about them is a staple of most harnesses.
by qsort - I'm glad folks are experimenting with different paradigms.
That said, Hacker News might not be the best audience for this informal survey. I'd wager at least 70% of the people reading this are still interacting with their computers using "strange terminal commands", by choice. We aren't representative of what normal people will use or prefer.
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