Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge.

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chat interfaces The text box as the way into a model: whether chat is the future of software or a terrible interface, and what replaces it.

AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.

In the views ondesignunder our view: The chat box was the door, not the room: the interface is being argued over again On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The buttons survive: chat gets married to controls, because showing what can be done still wins

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Luke Wroblewski 28 Aug 2025 Product designer and entrepreneur

It's also worth noting that chat isn't the only way to integrate AI in software products and increasingly agent-based applications outperform chat-only solutions. So expect things to keep changing.

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All user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

Ravikant expects every interface to converge on chat and gestures in, chat and video out. Wroblewski says chat is not AI’s final form, that agent-based applications already outperform chat-only ones, and that many different interfaces will emerge. Convergence on one shape and proliferation into many are the same prediction with the sign flipped.

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