You must not have kids. We try to limit screen usage, but when my oldest was two he was finding iPhone lock screen features that we didn't even know existed.

> I doubt UIs where you click on shit are going to exist at all in a couple of decades

I'm not sure what kind of UI you imagine for, say, PowerPoint, or Blender, or Excel.

Software like Blender, for one, will likely be primarily chat-driven in a decade.

The chatbox *is* the UI.

Move the thing on the right a little more to the right. No, not that thing!

I refuse to talk conversationally to computers. They are not humans, they are there to be given commands and carry out those commands without a lot of back and forth. I don't even use any of the voice interfaces with my devices, I've disabled Siri and "Hey Google" on all of them. I won't use a chatbot on a website. I simply draw the line and reject this fantasy that a computer can or should be treated like or behave like a person.

Hear, hear. It's like how for years search engines have been carefully guiding us into writing search queries as folk sentence questions. In the beginning of search entering a few terms was good enough to be shown relevant information. I don't want to have a conversation with a search engine either!

I have been poisoned by AskJeeves and I didn't use it much...

Sometimes it makes sense to ask a question, because well it should be one many people have already asked, but most of the times I just want keyword search.

I understand. Yet natural language is the natural and most intuitive interface, directly built into our brains. I'm convinced that the default user interface will be LLMs while tech-savvy folks will continue to use command-l'ne like interfaces in the future. For normies, traditional GUIs will most likely be both harder to comprehend and slower to use than LMUIs* when they're maturely implemented. After all these years spent with a smartphone, my older relatives still can't do the simplest operations on their phones. And this is because they don't care (to learn), no non-tech person ever wants to spend their lives learning mere tools more than a software developer wants to learn about the intricacies of their car, and they're justified in that.

* I coined the term rn. Tho probably someone else already did it.

Operating a computer with mouse and keyboard is manipulating real, physical objects. I move my mouse and point it towards something, that is quite real. The computer is a tool, I do not want to talk to it. Imagine talking to your hammer and asking it to drive in a nail instead of just doing it.- Voice commands are hilariously inefficient. For simple commands like open an app, set an alarm etc. they suffice but fore more complex operations its just horseshit.