Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?

https://http200.substack.com/p/intents-the-end-game-for-computing

by dpim • 2 years ago

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dpim• 2 years ago

Since coding with Cursor, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how much computing interfaces have changed in such a short period of time.

Just as we saw a paradigm shift from imperative to declarative interfaces, LLMs have opened the door to new kinds of interfaces.

Intent-driven interfaces are already everywhere - from AI assistants processing raw data, to Arazzo for defining how APIs map to human-scale workflows, to agents capable of handling complex tasks.

While the doomer view is “robots will take all our jobs”, my optimistic take is we finally have a human-centric way of interacting with machines and it’s going to supercharge our abilities

andai2• 2 years ago

If there are two partners and one is a million times faster than the other, are they both necessary?

Who is going to pay a thousand times more for a thousand times less?

candiddevmike• 2 years ago

If the faster one creates naive, hard to discover bugs, is it really faster? I don't think we understand the long term consequences (or maintenance) of LLM generated code. So far the anecdotal results haven't been great.

skratlo• 2 years ago

Gave me a good laugh, it's like when they were envisioning flying cars 50 years ago.

OutOfHere• 2 years ago

If I understand, this means to map a chat to a choice of clear API calls. I buy it.

The only issue with it that I can think of it the lack of reporting without asking. When I login to a site, I already want to see the most applicable information without having to ask for it. If I exclusively have to start asking a chatbot for basic info, I may miss out on a lot of what I need to know.

factormeta• 2 years ago

The gradual shift from imperative to declarative interfaces

prolog, sql, chatgpt comes to mind

FrustratedMonky• 2 years ago

Is this basically, how to do GUI's with functional programming. And someone saw the light and it is now the future?

People are always getting hung up on the "how to make a GUI if variables are immutable??".

It takes a bit of getting used to, but once over the hump, it seems like GUI's are easier.

See typescript, or fabulous, F#, elm, etc...

shove• 2 years ago

Oh we’re playing with fire alright

xuhu• 2 years ago

Another way of saying we're experimenting.

david_shi• 2 years ago

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/06/intents

Check this out

Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?

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