Comment by rurp
7 hours ago
The vast majority of users make zero changes to the default settings of an app or device, even for software they use all the time and where some simple builtin adjustments would significantly improve their experience.
I simply can't imagine a world where these same people all decide they constantly want to learn a completely unique UX for whatever piece of software they want to use.
Your missing the forest for the trees here.
Users will not fumble with the complex web of nested settings that engineers wet dream about.
But they will tell the LLM "I'd really like it if the tool bar only had the hammer and saw tools", and it will be done.
I cannot see software going in any other direction than a blank front end that users prompt LLMs to run scripts on top of.
Picture MS Word where the GUI is just a page and a sidebar for telling an LLM what you want it to do. And if it's not possible, the LLM could even write extensions and plugins that make it possible.
Software is going to completely change.
That only requires apps to be configurable. You don't need a whole new app to configure a toolbar.
> Picture MS Word where the GUI is just a page and a sidebar for telling an LLM what you want it to do.
Done. And it seems absolutely awful.
"Please bold the text I have selected" instead of a preexisting bold button.
Oh wait I can just tell it all the tools I commonly use and where to put them... Hmmm topbar or side bar. Wow so much fun getting to make all these decisions!
Ok time to change fonts. "Please add a font picker so I can pick a font"
All the people may not, but a decently skilled software engineer armed with an LLM, who doesn't have a lot of free time might be now be motivated to do it, whereas before it was like, "This thing is going to take months to replace, do I really want to write my own?"
The LLM will know how the user operates, their proclivities and brain structure, and will design UX perfectly suited to them, like a bespoke glove. They won't have to learn anything, it will be like a butler.
Why not just say that the LLM will just do all the work while you're making up future, hypothetical capabilities of LLMs?