alt Hacker NewsYou're a software engineer living in a middle of an AI revolution and you confuse what IS with what CAN BE? GUI can be good people just didn't do them because it took time and the foundation was shit (for the options that didn't take time). That all changes now when a new class of software can be generated with AI. Unfortunately the people generating software and their users still base the decision on what IS (with highly technical reasoning such as "infinitely better"). People literally have the power to define what IS these days. I've only recently switched from claude and codex cli to their respective apps and those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui. The tui is actually hurting my main usage of them which is controlling agent programmatically. The only really point I'd give for TUI is compatibility. Running coding agent directly on android/ios is nice sometimes.
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> That all changes now when a new class of software can be generated with AI.
All the AI-generated UIs I've seen have been very derivative, certainly not eliminating any of the disadvantages of typical GUI interfaces.
Realistically, the whole "overlapping windows" GUI model, and everything that derives from that, was a metaphor geared towards people who'd never seen a computer before. It fit the increasing consumer focus of computing interfaces. It's no wonder that technical people often prefer TUIs.
Maybe AI will bring real advancements in GUIs, but someone's still going to have to make it happen.
> what IS with what CAN BE
Despite the capitals and trying to come across as someone who SEES "what is COMING" (yay!), you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
No wait, I will leave you with a hint. Do whatever you wish to do with that.
Hint: So, you probably want me to use a toolset which is incredibly inferior, as of today, for "me/my usage", just because you feel "IT CAN BE". Right.