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by giancarlostoro4 hours ago |
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Apple should be extremely worried about the AI companies making big improvements in UX. This work by OpenAI is a step in that direction.

If the main user paradigm becomes a chat interface conjuring whatever UI elements needed to best accomplish the task at hand, the entire paradigm of OS, UI frameworks, apps from an App Store to accomplish specific tasks, all come into question.

I keep thinking that Steve Jobs would have been all over the UX ramifications of LLMs and demanding that Apple lead in that area.

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upvoteby ChrisMarshallNY3 hours ago|
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> probably hired someone from apple

Fairly likely: https://medium.com/the-engineering-brief/openai-hired-400-ap...

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upvoteby mi_lk3 hours ago|
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You could say the same thing about Anthropic because I don't really see much differences. Not sure about amazing part but both are high quality and I probably like Anthropic's aesthetic more
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upvoteby fasterik3 hours ago|
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Anthropic's aesthetic looks good by pre-AI design standards, but it's so overused now that I find it off-putting. It's like the 2026 equivalent of the Twitter bootstrap CSS from 15 years ago.
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upvoteby jimbokun1 hours ago|
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I don’t find this criticism to be very actionable.

What changes could they make to really improve the usability of their products?

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upvoteby hatthew2 hours ago|
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I feel like today's tailwind is the spiritual equivalent to last decade's bootstrap. Except that last decade's bootstrap webpages have a human behind them who usually put thought and effort into making the page useful and correct, whereas today's tailwind pages are often vibe coded slop with all the associated issues.
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upvoteby dv35z1 hours ago|
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Bootstrap stands the test of time! I use it as my go-to unless I have a reason otherwise.
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upvoteby dcchambers3 hours ago|
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> these AI companies need to start thinking outside of these basic chat UIs, they do some things here and there, but its really depressing how little they do to innovate in these spaces. Same with the coding harnesses, the UI for all these things could be drastically superior.

I would prefer if the AI companies stuck to just creating better models and making them as cheap and accessible as possible. Let others build the products. I don't want 1-2 companies to own every product in the world.

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upvoteby giancarlostoro7 minutes ago|
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Technically other companies do, and I lump them in when I say "these AI companies" I am talking about any company that makes and builds any AI harness, coding or otherwise, I have not seen any innovating in the areas of the UI / UX of using these chat models in a meaningful way.
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upvoteby jimbokun59 minutes ago|
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That was the objection to Microsoft controlling both the dominant OS and the most popular productivity applications running on that OS. Took the web then mobile devices to really shake that up.
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upvoteby xg153 hours ago|
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> I don't want 1-2 companies to own every product in the world.

That seems to be the plan...

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upvoteby timacles3 hours ago|
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That’s the plan for … capitalism

Buckle up boys

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upvoteby jimbokun59 minutes ago|
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Nothing new.

Look at the history of Microsoft.

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upvoteby goatlover3 hours ago|
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Sounds rather late stage.
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upvoteby Foobar85683 hours ago|
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Well, like 30 years ago, a French comedy show had foreseen it, the "World Company" buying everything, no need to understand French to understand the "joke" at the end https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4du7uh
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upvoteby tencentshill4 hours ago|
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Why did they bother hiring someone to write at all? I certainly wouldn't invest $1T into a company with so little confidence in their product. When the chips are down and they need to write something important, they DON'T use AI?
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upvoteby onion2k3 hours ago|
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Obviously everyone at Anthropic uses a ton of AI in everything. The point here is that they clearly use it well, and that they use it as a tool to augment and enhance what they do rather than as a replacement for effort. The blog posts don't read like the output of a prompt because they're probably the output of dozens of prompts, rewritten and edited, by someone who's using AI to actually write something worth reading.

Anyone can having blog posts as good as this by using AI. Just not by zero-shotting it with a 2 line prompt. It still takes a lot of work.

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upvoteby buzzerbetrayed28 minutes ago|
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Do you also demand that McDonald’s employees only eat McDonald’s?

They use their product to do what it’s best at, and use humans where it isn’t yet good enough.

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upvoteby apsurd4 hours ago|
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That's just picking a fight. Whatever we think about how amazing or terrible AI is, it's pretty reasonable to understand it is quite literally the weighted average of humanity's output.

Also reasonable: it's possible to hire a world-class ___ to do that job better than AI.

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upvoteby ianbutler3 hours ago|
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It's not a weighted average though. I see this repeated all the time. Between synthetic data, custom produced training data by experts, post-training regimes etc the models are far more diverged from that baseline at this point, at this point it's mostly a right shifted curve.
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upvoteby apsurd3 hours ago|
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I hesitated to write that line because I don't know the math. So thanks for clarifying. Main point is the output is along some distribution and I'd say AI-evangelist themselves see "good enough" across everything and anything as a feature.
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upvoteby cyanydeez3 hours ago|
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upvoteby lukewarm7072 hours ago|
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"The apocalypse will be televised"
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upvoteby rfgplk4 hours ago|
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Mate this is like half a prompt of GPT-6
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upvoteby lrpe4 hours ago|
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I take the opposite viewpoint. I think pages like these are horrible, and a demonstration that web designers have too many tools at their disposal.

But this is just a marketing page for some tech company, right? If only it stopped there. I have to deal with this nonsense in news "articles" as well on occasion, when some web designer intern is allowed to larp as a journalist for a day.

sigh Just give me text to read.

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upvoteby mikestorrent2 hours ago|
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Sometimes you want more than text. This is one of the interesting divides these days - and I say this as someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal. Computer interfaces and interaction did not peak with the VT-100. Sometimes, there is a very legitimate need to show tables, graphics, interesting graphs, and to use colour and shade to draw the eye and lead someone through an experience.

This is why I use an IDE instead of a TUI agent... I'm on a computer with a multi-megapixel display, I want to use it. If I could be driving the same process with my Macintosh SE as a serial terminal, what the hell is the point of my recent Macbook?

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upvoteby lrpe2 hours ago|
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You say tables, graphics, graphs, and colors, but I mean things that move when they don't need to move and interfere with expected UI behaviour, like arbitrarily staying in one position when I am using my mouse wheel to scroll downwards.

I should have been more precise than saying "just give me text", but it was what came in to mind when I wrote it, as I was thinking about what an article is meant to contain as its base element.

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upvoteby KoolKat231 hours ago|
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I'm pretty sure you can just ask chatgpt to add to its memory "Just give me text to read."
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upvoteby buzzerbetrayed26 minutes ago|
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The text-only purists on HN are getting very tiresome. It’s seriously in every fucking post that links to a site with JavaScript enabled. We get it. You’re elite. Now stop talking about it.
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upvoteby lrpe8 minutes ago|
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No.
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upvoteby Shorel3 hours ago|
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I think the point is not how good this blog post is as if it was written by a human, but that this blog post is entirely generated by the GPT-6 model.

So this is a taste of the slop that's going to invade everywhere in a few months.

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upvoteby 1204927514 hours ago|
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I don't know. This is an amateur page with a bad AI video and chaotic presentation. It is ten levels below Apple announcements.
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