Will agents replace software you click through?

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   Maybe we’re trying to make AI reproduce old forms of products, when it could create fundamentally new ones.

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   Lately, almost every product ends up as a chat. Does every interface reduce to one in the end, and what are the exceptions?

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   Chat has already replaced whole interfaces. In databases with a human face, like Notion and Fibery, getting data used to mean clicking through views and filters; now you ask an agent, it fetches the data over MCP, and the answer comes back as markdown, not a view.

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   Apple is betting that clicking stays: it just made a MacBook with a touchscreen. But Apple is no longer who people look to for where interfaces are going.

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   Devices that swapped the screen for an agent, like the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1, haven’t caught on yet. It’s a matter of time: better models, or just deeper work on them, will make them useful.

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   Agents won’t replace software you have to click through altogether. Exploratory work has already moved to chat; what stays clickable is the repeatable work you do yourself. You plan your gym training with an agent, but you still log each set with a tap.

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   The line between chat and buttons is the cost of input: anything faster to tap than to say keeps its buttons.