Terminal Velocity – LLMs and The Inexorable March to Text First UIs

The Confusion Matrix
The Confusion Matrix
Terminal Velocity – LLMs and The Inexorable March to Text First UIs
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Alex explains his slow but unstoppable gravitation to text based interfaces and an “everything via the terminal” mentality. After all, who needs graphical operating systems? To do this, Pete and Alex take a ramble through the history of nerd-first user interfaces, discuss why keyboard layouts are stupid, how this relates to window based OSes and reflect on how LLMs help solve the usability conundrum. Oh, and Ada is back, and determined to keep the boys straight, and she isn’t mincing her words!