Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?(http200.substack.com) |
Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?(http200.substack.com) |
Just as we saw a paradigm shift from imperative to declarative interfaces, LLMs have opened the door to new kinds of interfaces.
Intent-driven interfaces are already everywhere - from AI assistants processing raw data, to Arazzo for defining how APIs map to human-scale workflows, to agents capable of handling complex tasks.
While the doomer view is “robots will take all our jobs”, my optimistic take is we finally have a human-centric way of interacting with machines and it’s going to supercharge our abilities
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The only issue with it that I can think of it the lack of reporting without asking. When I login to a site, I already want to see the most applicable information without having to ask for it. If I exclusively have to start asking a chatbot for basic info, I may miss out on a lot of what I need to know.
People are always getting hung up on the "how to make a GUI if variables are immutable??".
It takes a bit of getting used to, but once over the hump, it seems like GUI's are easier.
See typescript, or fabulous, F#, elm, etc...
prolog, sql, chatgpt comes to mind
They just seem to replace stack overflow.
LLMs present a solution as if it is 100% in the context of your problem. You arrive at a solution without being forced to think at all if the solution applies to your problem.
Without being forced to, many will not. I teach programming and I can tell you it is so so obvious when students are just blasting shit from ChatGPT into their submissions without thought.