SD Times Article by Jason English
Ah, the 90’s, when I briefly worked at one of the world’s first web agencies… For us, the real “killer app” interface was Google. You’d just type in what you want in the search bar, and bam! It would usually show pretty relevant results, rather than random links like Yahoo!, and no stupid flashing ad banners. [This was long before the search engine’s enshittification, as Cory Doctorow dubbed it.]
Also cool, Dallas acquired the Stars hockey team from Minnesota, so I went in with my dad on season tickets. We could easily meet up at the office and walk to Reunion Arena. At one game on October 25, 1996, I was bringing down a couple beers during the start of the second period.
Darryl Sydor, my favorite Stars player at the time, slapped a one-timer from the top of the circle and it got redirected toward seat J7. They didn’t have corner netting back then. My dad said “Aw, I missed it.”
I didn’t. You know how in Looney Tunes cartoons, when Sylvester gets bonked in the head, it makes that kind of sheet metal sound, followed by tweety birds? It sounded exactly like that.
Agentic AI talk is cheap
Fast forward 30 years later, and AI has replaced the software user interface with a text field again. Instead of looking for visual cues and clicking around, we can just type in a prompt, or talk to it, and ask it for whatever we want.
AI is finally here! It’s like that “computer” on Star Trek, where you just say “Computer! Give me an analysis of the inhabitants of this planet.”
Except, without the egalitarian post-money society where everyone has equal rights and opportunity, and their basic needs are met, and nobody has to live next to a huge, noisy datacenter that sucks up all the energy and water to produce fake videos and replace workers.
But there is a social upside. Almost a third of U.S. adults have reported that they have had a romantic relationship with AI. Good for them.
Introducing my next biggest release: The Inter-Userface.
The Inter-Userface is a new agentic hybrid AI collaboration platform that provides a contextual conversational metadata reference mesh, (or AHAICPCCMRM).
There’s no screens, or buttons to click, though it already has an MCP server. You just ask your agent to talk to someone else’s agent, then when that doesn’t work, you do the rest…
Read JE’s Analyst Corner column in SD Times here: https://sdtimes.com/ai/ai-killed-the-user-interface-instead-try-this-inter-userface/
