As AI Turns Prevalent, UI Becomes Irrelevant
7 hours ago
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- Star-history.com moved from Vercel to Cloudflare for unified DNS and hosting.
- Cloudflare's complex dashboard was navigated using Claude Code, simplifying the process.
- Polished UIs are becoming less of a competitive advantage as AI agents prefer simpler interfaces like config files or CLI.
- Cursor IDE is evolving into a task list, with AI handling the rest, emphasizing interfaces for LLMs over humans.
- Five projects designed around plain text and code for AI and human scriptability:
- 1. asciinema: Records terminal sessions as text for LLM-readable demos.
- 2. Hurl: Defines HTTP requests in plain text for API testing without GUI tools.
- 3. Mermaid: Generates diagrams from markdown-like syntax, easily produced by LLMs.
- 4. pgschema: Manages PostgreSQL schemas declaratively with SQL, ideal for AI agents.
- 5. Streamlit: Turns Python scripts into web apps, enabling LLMs to generate dashboards.