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candiddevmikeyesterday at 5:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

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.


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skandinafftoday at 1:04 PM

a new kind of operating system, that instead of having all those annoying apps, will just be an agent, that does whatever stuff you need|want|it can - why not? But still, we gonna need to be able to maintain many contexts, access remote servers, local file system, sort, present data, be it local or remote. One screen, one button, philosopher's stone made of silicon

bryanrasmussentoday at 4:18 AM

>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.

jdahlinyesterday at 5:59 PM

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.