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Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
by realrocker on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:17AM
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That is super cool. Sorry to be nitpicky but would really like to know your mental model: I didn’t understand from the blog why user waiting for a functional UI is a problem ? isn’t the partial streamed UI non-functional ?
I can see the value in early user verification and maybe interrupting the LLM to not proceed on an invalid path but I guess this is customer facing so not as valuable.
"In interactive assistants, that latency makes or breaks the experience." Why ? Because user might just jump off ?
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Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
by FabianCarbonara on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:44AM
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Maybe I am a bit overdramatic ;) For me this is mostly about user experience. If the agent creates a complex mini app, the user might have to wait 30 seconds. That's 30 seconds without feedback. It's way nicer to already see information appearing - especially if that information is helpful. Also the UI can be functional already, even if it's not 100% complete!
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
by realrocker on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:11AM
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No that makes sense. Waiting for feedback might lead to churn. Pretty cool idea.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
by kristopolous on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:22PM
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Add a video or a live demo, there's still too much friction on this readme.
Always Show then Ask.
Re:I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
by FabianCarbonara on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:31PM
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and I meant to say: tinkerdown looks pretty cool!
I have been working on something with a similar goal:
https://github.com/livetemplate/tinkerdown