Posts tagged: llm

Ai prompt music, the right level of cringe to be great.

This post was filled with real life, snark, entertainment, feelings. I get a lot of these emails that claim they can change my SEO game if I give them 500, for a site making 0, Link partnerships from small startups. A lot of these are so automated that if I do respond I dont even get a response. I’ve responded to many simply asking what is this about, I get 10 others just like you a week. Can you tell me what exactly you want and what each of us benefit from it, how did you find me. All normal questions, they almost always result in crickets, no response, maybe its time to implement a Billie for more snark.

Absolute banger of a conference talk, saving to come back with more notes later.

Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word low pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing variants to the user. This allows you to change between fast or slow and thinking, the later taking more time to prepare before doing an action.

It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider.

Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers.

Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers:

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Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther.

Salesforce gets pwnd by the ai hype bros and killed its reputation with employees, letting them know where they truely stand with them. 4k people sounds like a lot, its probably a big chunk of savings, but was it worth the loss of reputation? There must be a better way to give this a trial run that lets them understand this before disrupting the lives of real people right???

I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I’ve been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip.

Uh Simon, what do you got for us?

I’ve just got the one. I think the act

of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah.

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This is opencode’s init prompt.

While the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like “desaturate”, “Gaussian blur”, evolving out of it for text. I don’t yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve.

Brilliantly said. Vibe coding is legacy code. It’s code that we forget exists. Code that no one touches, you replace it. If you touch it you are more likely to break it.

The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.

As you can imagine, the first phase is ecstatic. I can wave this little piece of plastic in stores and take whatever I want! …

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# The Death of the User Interface > **TL;DR:** We're witnessing the end of graphical user interfaces. AI agents like Claude Code are eliminating the need for windows, menus, and clicks, replacing them with natural language. The computer is finally learning to speak human, not the other way around. --- ## 🔮 A Personal Revelation Last week, I realized something profound: **I haven't opened Finder in months.** Not once. Where I once clicked through nested folders, dragged and dropped files, and navigated hierarchical menus, I now simply tell Claude Code exactly what I need: - _"Find all the test files modified in the last week"_ - _"Move the old backups to archive"_ The commands execute instantly, precisely, without me ever seeing a window, icon, or folder. > This isn't just about convenience. It's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with computers, and it signals the beginning of the end for user interfaces as we know them. --- ## 🚴 → 🚀 The Bicycle That Became a Teleporter In 1990, Steve Jobs famously described computers as "bicycles for the mind," drawing from a Scientific American study showing that humans on bicycles were the most efficient locomotors on Earth. The metaphor was perfect for its time: computers amplified human cognitive abilities just as bicycles amplified our physical capabilities. But bicycles still require you to: - **Pedal** the mechanism - **Steer** the direction - **Navigate** the terrain - **Learn** the balance Traditional user interfaces work the same way. They're tools that amplify our abilities, but only after we learn their language, their layouts, their logic. > **What we have now with AI agents isn't a bicycle anymore. It's a teleporter.** You simply state your destination, and you arrive. --- ## 📜 From Xerox PARC to Natural Language: A 50-Year Arc ### The Timeline of Interface Evolution **1964** → Douglas Engelbart invents the computer mouse at Stanford Research Institute **1973** → Xerox PARC develops the Alto, the first computer with a GUI **1979** → Steve Jobs sees the Alto, immediately grasps its revolutionary potential **1984** → Macintosh launches, bringing GUI to the masses **2024** → AI agents begin replacing graphical interfaces entirely That language dominated for five decades. Windows, Mac OS, and even modern web applications all speak variations of it: _point, click, drag, drop, menu, submenu, dialog box, button._ We became so fluent in this language that we forgot it was a language at all. ### The Abstraction Layer Pattern Every abstraction layer in computing eventually gets replaced by a higher-level one: | **Era** | **From** | **To** | | ------- | ------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | 1950s | Machine code | → Assembly language | | 1960s | Assembly | → High-level programming languages | | 1980s | Command line | → Graphical user interfaces | | 2000s | Native apps | → Web applications | | 2020s | **User interfaces** | **→ Conversational AI agents** | > Each transition follows the same pattern: what once required specialized knowledge becomes accessible through more natural, intuitive interaction. --- ## 👻 The Invisible Operating System Traditional operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux, are abstractions over hardware. Web applications are abstractions over REST APIs. Both require user interfaces because they need to translate between human intent and machine execution. **AI agents represent something fundamentally different:** they're abstractions that understand human intent directly. No translation required. ### Consider the Mental Journey of a Simple Task 🖱️ Traditional UI Approach 1. Open Finder/Explorer _(remember where it is)_ 2. Navigate to directory _(remember the path)_ 3. Scan through files _(parse visual information)_ 4. Select multiple files _(remember shortcuts)_ 5. Right-click for menu _(know this exists)_ 6. Choose "Move to..." _(understand terminology)_ 7. Navigate to destination _(remember another path)_ 8. Confirm operation _(hope you got it right)_ 🗣️ AI Agent Approach 1. "Move all PDF files from Downloads to Documents/Reports" **Done.** > The difference isn't just efficiency, it's cognitive load. With traditional interfaces, you're translating your intent into the computer's language. With AI agents, the computer learns your language instead. --- ## 🧠 The Mental Load Revolution Every interface element, every button, menu, icon, and widget, is a **tiny cognitive tax**. Even the most intuitive interface requires you to: - ✓ Understand its visual language - ✓ Remember its organizational structure - ✓ Learn its interaction patterns - ✓ Maintain mental models of its state This is what UX designers call **"extraneous cognitive load"**. Mental effort spent on using the tool rather than accomplishing the task. > When you tell Claude Code to "set up a new Python project with pytest and black pre-configured," you're expressing pure intent. The mental energy you would have spent on navigation can be redirected to actual problem-solving. --- ## ⚡ The Present: Early Adopters and Edge Cases We're living through the transition right now. ### What's Happening in 2024 - **AIOS** → Embedding LLMs directly into operating systems - **Claude Code** → Replacing entire categories of developer tools - **Cursor & Copilot** → Making IDEs conversational - **Warp Agent Mode** → LLMs in the terminal for multi-step workflows ### What I No Longer Do I see it in my own work every day. I no longer: ❌ Browse through file explorers ❌ Click through git GUIs ❌ Navigate package manager interfaces ❌ Hunt through documentation sites ❌ Configure tools through preference panes Instead, I describe what I want, and it happens. **The interface hasn't been simplified, it's been eliminated.** --- ## 🍎 The Future Steve Jobs Glimpsed > "Ultimately computers are going to be a tool for communication. Not computation, not productivity. Communication." > > — Steve Jobs, 1983 International Design Conference At that conference in Aspen, a 28-year-old Jobs made predictions that seemed like science fiction: - Portable computers with wireless connections - Instant access to remote databases - Devices as primary means of communication He was right about all of it, but even his vision was constrained by the paradigm of his time. He imagined better interfaces, more intuitive interactions, simpler designs. **He couldn't imagine no interface at all.** Yet in that quote above, Jobs understood something fundamental: the real revolution would come when computers could understand us as naturally as we understand each other. > That future is arriving. The question isn't whether AI will replace user interfaces, but how quickly and how completely. --- ## 🔄 The Last Interface There's an irony in writing about the death of user interfaces, or rather, there **was**. This article itself is proof of the transition: generated through conversation with Claude Code, shaped by human intent rather than human interface manipulation. I provided the ideas and direction; the AI handled the execution. **The future isn't coming, it's already here, manifesting through the very words you're reading.** Soon, articles like this won't be "written" in the traditional sense. They'll be conversed into existence, with AI agents handling not just the typing but the research, fact-checking, formatting, and publishing. The tool will disappear into the task. ### The Holdouts and the Inevitable Some will mourn this loss. There's something satisfying about direct manipulation, about seeing and controlling every step. Just as some still prefer command lines to GUIs, some will always prefer clicking to conversing. But for most of us, the appeal of **zero cognitive load** will be irresistible. > Why learn an interface when you can just say what you want? > Why navigate when you can simply arrive? --- ## 🎯 Conclusion: After the Interface We stand at an inflection point. For fifty years, ever since Xerox PARC invented the GUI, we've been refining the same basic paradigm: **humans learning to speak computer**. Now, **computers are learning to speak human**. The death of the user interface doesn't mean the death of design or user experience. If anything, it makes them more important. When the interface disappears, what remains is pure interaction design: understanding human intent, anticipating needs, handling edge cases gracefully. The challenge shifts from: - ❌ _"How do we make this button more obvious?"_ - ✅ **"How do we understand what the user really wants?"** > Steve Jobs gave us bicycles for the mind. > AI agents are giving us something else entirely: **minds that understand our minds.** > No pedaling required. **The user interface is dying, and that's the most user-friendly thing that could possibly happen.** --- _What do you think? Are we witnessing the end of user interfaces, or just another evolution? How has AI changed your own relationship with traditional software interfaces?_

This is an insane level of agentic llm use, the author claims to not even use his filesystem anymore, its too cumbersome to find where downloads and documents are and way too easy to ask an agent to move all pdf’s from downloads to documents.

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