Designing Agentic Interfaces Beyond the Chatbot
Lauren Tan (@poteto on X), a SpaceX engineer, recently asked her audience whether they believed chat was the final form of agentic UI. The responses were overwhelmingly no.
That's not to say chat isn't an essential stepping stone (it is). But the discussion suggests we're still nowhere near the limits of what's possible with today's technology.
It's tempting to think everything can be done through chat, for a few reasons:
It's natural: It's how we've communicated for millennia, so it's familiar.
It lets us go as deep into any topic as we want, given the right context.
Done right, it can perform extremely complex actions from minimal instructions, often with impressive accuracy.
That said, chat has its limitations:
Some things are simply better shown in other formats (duh): Images, graphs, or videos, for example.
Why ask? Some actions shouldn't require a prompt.You just want them done, and...
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