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   Robert Roskam (raiderrobert@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 13:15:06 JST Robert Roskam

   We've painted ourselves into a UX corner with GUIs for the past 30 years, and LLMs are showing it to be true.

   Can you imagine Salesforce contact records being just "available" in MS teams? Or a Google Sheets column be used over in Discord for a slash command?

   But that used to be the expectation.

   "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." (1/4)

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     Robert Roskam (raiderrobert@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 13:15:06 JST Robert Roskam

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     Programs could stream text from one to the other on the command line. It's still possible. No one took grep / awk / sed away from us.

     But that is not how most software made in the past 30 years works any more. Applications (like 95% of them) let you primarily send data out via copy-paste.

     That's it. (2/4)