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Much UI exists because software cannot understand user intent and serves as a human API to dumb machines, so smarter machines need far less UI.

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

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  1. Thorsten Ball Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
    A lot of UI exists because software can’t understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.

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