Is AI replacing UI?

Thomas Hansen - Jan 31 - - Dev Community

Our strategy bet is that UI is obsolete, and that AI and natural language interfaces are rug pulling the entire "frontend development space".

In this video I am managing our Kubernetes cluster, sending customised marketing emails, managing payments and customers, and the whole shebang from a custom GPT, connected to our internal management API.

It allows us to send payment links, create Kubernetes deployments, tear down deployments, and everything related to "administrating and managing our company" (we're a SaaS / PaaS company)

Is there a single thing you actually need a UI for today? Ignoring Photo Shop and such? Our bet is that at least for admin apps, AI will conquer UI completely ...

We crazy ...?

Thoughts ...?

Advantages are among other things that we got rid of 70% of technical debt, and the above Custom GPT was created in some 5 to 10 hours. Traditional software development (with UI) would require hundreds of hours, possibly thousands to deliver the same ...

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