For most software, interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers.

Drawn from what Bret Victor said

What this subject means

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The interface is going away: the user states an intent, and agents and generated interfaces do the rest

What Bret Victor actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

JavaScript should act immediately on user input to mask network latency, which should remove most spinners and loading messages.

Victor says that for most software interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and that the goal is to show rather than to ask. Rauch says JavaScript should act immediately on user input to mask network latency. Both want the user waiting less; one gets there by removing the interaction and the other by making it instantaneous.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.