alt Hacker News> 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.
GUI is not just your "overlapping windows" straw man, it's interactivity, plus graphical display. Yes via a taxonomy hack TUI is not GUI and there are technical hacks that bring graphics to TUIs these days, but the point remains that we need complex (but not overlapping windows, sure!) interactivity and rich display capability.
That is what we need, and if you're making the argument that a terminal shell is the best place to provide them then I don't know what to say.