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We can build agents that write code, browse the web, and manage our calendars. But the question remains: how do we speak to them, and how should they speak back? Earlier this September, we filled Paradigm's living room to swap lessons, doubts, and hopes for the interfaces shaping our future. Ilan Bigio, who works on applied research at OpenAI, puts it simply. Text gave us the first breakthroughs, but falls short when workflows need structure, history, dependencies, and guardrails. This issue goes beyond AI. In 1979, Lakoff and Johnson proposed that language itself is a leaky conduit; we're always losing meaning in translation. Once we acknowledged the limits of text, the next question emerged: where else should agents live? The best agents move beyond isolated chat dialogues into surfaces we already trust. We're already seeing this shift: Perplexity's Comet lives in your browser, while OpenAI's Operator spins up its own browsers—performing work you'd normally do yourself. The browser m

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