Greg Hunt @greghuntdev

@liadyosef @jameswlepage this is where my head is at too. Agents as UI is the next step in UI evolution and I think it'll happen sooner than later. Websites will become a data source for agents and/or an agent's address, not the direct UI itself

Thoughts about the future of UI that excite me: 1. Complex web interfaces are dead in the long term. They are solving human perception limitations that will no longer be relevant. No one will want to learn how to use complex UIs in the future. If this is your app's differentiator, move fast. 2. Personal agents will win over dedicated app agents. People are getting used to agentic experiences, so building a dedicated agent for your app may *seem* like a good idea, but this is just a "faster horses" solution. No one will browse to 4 different websites to use 4 different agents. They'll use their own single agent and won't care how your websites even look. 3. The new frontend will be UI snippets that will be returned from MCP servers to be rendered in your personal agent. The agent will control the experience, and will display only the specific visualization or interactivity piece that you need from every app. There are fascinating questions there around how the apps will keep their brand in this new world, but without clashing with the agent's own experience. I'm most excited to work on that part. 4. If you're reading this and thinking "there is no way I'm giving up on dashboards" - you're still thinking like a project manager and not like the US president. The president doesn't look at dashboards, he has helpers who look at them and extract only what he needs to know. All visualization is a way of answering questions and make sure you're not missing anything. Eventually it's either "this is going well" or "this requires attention". Once we'll establish trust with the agents capabilities, we'll rely on them like on personal assitants, they'll extract this data, act on it and will defer to us *only* when a human decision or attention is specifically needed. This will happen faster than we think. Try to use Jira's Claude integration for few days, and its "regular" web UI will start to seem unnecessary bloated. In few years the idea of navigating to dozens of websites to manually use dozens of different interfaces will seem very primitive. Personally I'm very bullish on this direction, and have been for the past months. I come from a long career in web development, so naturally there are mixed emotions for me seeing a decade of web UI development concepts evolving into something new. But I'm very excited about it, and very lucky to be at the forefront of it.

pgvector still killing the more dedicated vector databases. Postgres remains a great bet for AI apps timescale.com/blog/pgvector-…

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Cohere's newest "Embed 4" embedding model blows away OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large while being slightly cheaper. It's multimodal, multilingual, and has a 128k context length (15x larger than others)😮 cohere.com/blog/embed-4

@robin_nomicly Perhaps if you've been working your butt off getting to that point, try to maintain growth while reducing your work hours? I'm sure you've earned some downtime and doing more with less can help smooth out your systems.

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@TheJackForge Once AI finally figures what hands look like it's over. Someone really needs to hardcode handDigits = 5 into their models or something.

@gyurisc Good on you! I'm a single guy and have a hard enough time finding the time in the day to work on my projects. I can only imagine the dedication and will it takes while having a family as well.

I just posted "Tailwind Over HTTP API" on Reddit reddit.com/r/tailwindcss/…

I just completed "Rock Paper Scissors" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022 adventofcode.com/2022/day/2 #AdventOfCode Solution github.com/greghunt/adven…

I just completed "Calorie Counting" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 adventofcode.com/2022/day/1 #AdventOfCode Coding my solutions here github.com/greghunt/adven… and will try in different languages each day.

@volkandkaya I mocked a similar situation but with 65k list items and the results were: 61% byte savings for raw HTML, 65% gzipped, 44% brotlied

@volkandkaya Good point. That would probably equalize the duplication mostly. I wonder if the processing and rendering of the styles are effected at all differently in these two cases. Might do a little test.

"Optimizing Tailwind to the Last Byte" #CSS #tailwindcss dev.to/greghunt/optim…

I'm prone to over-engineering just because I can sometimes. Luckily, I usually remember that excessive solutions and masturbatory programming doesn't get me to ship code to the real world any faster. #KISS

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