AI Agents, Product Velocity, & User Interfaces - Michael Dempsey: Blog
I kind of thought of the UI as the product and then machine learning came along and the Machine learning was there to sort of help the UI and that shifted completely. Now AI is the product and the UI is there to to help the AI to capture better signal. It’s very clear that some version of the future includes a world where software actions begin to migrate from humans to AI Agents. How this manifests itself is likely a spectrum with two very different angles of approach that have implications on how you build a company moving forward. Each approach has its own merits and are perhaps rate limited by technology development and human adoption. This creates complexity for startups that are aiming to build in a world that has any level of agent penetration and forces them to make implicit bets on how they imagine this future playing out and the pace at which it does. The first, and perhaps most obvious scenario is one in which agents take a simplistic, classical UI-driven, multimodal approac
I kind of thought of the UI as the product and then machine learning came along and the Machine learning was there to sort of help the UI and that shifted completely. Now AI is the product and the UI is there to to help the AI to capture better signal. — Gustav Söderström, Co-President, CPO & CTO at Spotify, Source It’s very clear that some version of the future includes a world where software actions begin to migrate from humans to AI Agents. How this manifests itself is likely a spectrum with two very different angles of approach that have implications on how you build a company moving forwa
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