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pitbredtoday at 3:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

We're all here debating the friction of downloading apps versus the convenience of the mobile web, but we might be missing the bigger picture. Both are UI-heavy paradigms designed for humans to click things. In a few years, we won't care if a service has a slick React app or a native iOS build. We’ll just tell our AI agents: 'Book that flight' or 'Fix my billing issue,' and they’ll talk to the APIs directly. The era of 'interfaces for humans' is peaking; the era of 'headless services for agents' is just beginning. Interfaces are becoming a legacy tax.


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threatofraintoday at 4:18 PM

Explanation and summarization without visual interactables is so much harder to do. A person can talk to an interface but I don't know how many people would like natural language back.

madeofpalktoday at 3:36 PM

Maybe. You’ll need to overcome DoorDash not wanting to give up the UI as a chance to upsell services.

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