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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  A server's real network throughput can exceed what its single fastest port suggests when a protocol supports channel bonding across multiple links.

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  SMB Multichannel can make an old NAS with several gigabit interfaces much more capable than one might assume from looking at any single Ethernet port.

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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Terminal interfaces exist out of necessity, not because they are the right design

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  We build terminal interfaces because we have to, not because we should.

  Stop Making TUIssockpuppet.org

Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Treating brain-computer interfaces as one investment category is like having a single "drug bet" -- the field is as varied as pharma.

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  Yeah, I mean I think BCI is a category kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you I I'll talk to VCs and like, "Oh, we have a BCI bet." I'm like, "Do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like that's that's how you think about the category?"

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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  All user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

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  Eventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

  @naval on Xx.com

Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Developers today mostly plan, debate, implement and review with AI agents rather than write code themselves.

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  Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.

  Joining Cursorarslan.io

Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  Coding agents demand more reading than most people can do, and until better interfaces arrive that leaves those people at a severe disadvantage.

  coding agents

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  So I think we're in a weird limbo for the rest of this year okay where until the UIs arrive that are good enough for everybody who can't read everybody who can't read is going to be a severe disadvantage.

  From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com

Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop.

  OpenAIGoogle

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  Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Jupyter notebooks

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  As for me personally, I tend to use these tools as a backend data store and use Jupyter notebooks as well as my own custom built annotation interfaces for most of my needs.

  hamel.dev

Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge.

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  It's also worth noting that chat isn't the only way to integrate AI in software products and increasingly agent-based applications outperform chat-only solutions. So expect things to keep changing.

  Chat is: the Future or a Terrible UIlukew.com

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Today's text-box chat interfaces are too restricted to survive multimodal models, and will look archaic within a couple of years.

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  Shouldn't it be something more like Minority Report where you are sort of vibing with it in a kind of collaborative way? It seems very restricted today. I think we'll look back on today's interfaces and products and systems as quite archaic in maybe in just a couple of years.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  Models that can code should be allowed to write their own interfaces, instead of being boxed into the UI humans give them.

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  Today, we are constraining the models, the models can't quite express themselves in terms of the UI to people. But if you think about it, we've kind of boxed them in that way, but given these models can code, they should be able to write the best interfaces to express their ideas over time.

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Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

From one piece Physicality: the new age of UI 2 beliefs · lux.camera

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  Interfaces are returning to skeuomorphism, but as behaviour rather than lacquer: clear, graphic elements that act like materials from the real world.

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  We’ve come back, in a sense, to skeuomorphic interfaces — but this time not with a lacquer resembling a material. Instead, the interface is clear, graphic and behaves like things we know from the real world, or might exist in the world. This is what the new skeuomorphism is. It, too, is physicality.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

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  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Conversational interfaces get to the first seventy percent quickly and are bad at iteration; the future is chat married to traditional direct-manipulation controls.

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  Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  The return on UX design work is declining because the usability battles have been won: the low-hanging fruit was picked and interfaces are now reasonably good.

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  UX design has been steadily improving over the last 50 years and is now reasonably good. The low-hanging fruit of terrible usability has long since been picked.

  Declining ROI From UX Design Workjakobnielsenphd.substack.com

Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  Figma

  Their words

  Figma for designing user interfaces & wireframes

  smakosh.com

Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  Scrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.

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  They aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.

  How to Break Free from Dopamine Culturehonest-broker.com

Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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  I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  AI pin

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  I tried out Humane's long-awaited new AI pin. While there are some undoubtedly novel new features in its interfaces, I think "AI hardware" may turn out to be a dead end

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  Graphical interfaces have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.

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  GUIs have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

From one piece AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years 2 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com

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  The graphical user interface will survive AI in a less dominant role: future AI systems will have hybrid interfaces that combine intent and command.

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  Thus, the 2nd UI paradigm will survive, albeit in a less dominant role. Future AI systems will likely have a hybrid user interface that combines elements of both intent-based and command-based interfaces while still retaining many GUI elements.

  AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com

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  Today's chat-based AI tools have deep-rooted usability problems and are not the interfaces we will be using in a few years; prompt engineering is a symptom, not a career.

  OpenAI

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  I doubt that the current set of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Bard, etc., are representative of the UIs we’ll be using in a few years because they have deep-rooted usability problems.

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Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.

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  While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.

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Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.

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  Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.

  LLMs

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  Hopefully I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs. Or, at the very least, that we can add controls, information, and affordances to our chatbot interfaces to make them more usable.

  Why Chatbots Are Not the Futurewattenberger.com

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementing and evaluating; a chatbot forces the switch every few seconds and kills flow.

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.

  Why Chatbots Are Not the Futurewattenberger.com

Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  The best touch interfaces are physical buttons; on a screen, to feel tactile is to move without latency.

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  Excellent touch interfaces feel tactile. The best “touch interfaces,” in my opinion, are actual buttons, things with physicality, haptics. But on a screen, to feel tactile is to move without latency.

  Fast Software, the Best Softwarecraigmod.com