Technology

There’s a million reasons to publish, but they all come down to two things.

One – getting heard, making noise.
Two – making money.

And the internet is a great place for both of those things. As we’re moving away from classic backend-frontend websites towards a future where content is generated by LLMs, we need to make sure both of those things are protected.

I’m tired so I’ll keep it short.

Will a chatbot just not play a role at all when it comes to the future of computing, or will everything evolve around the chatbot. I see both visions, and the first one seems far more inovative. Let me explain.

I fire up my computer and get greeted by a chat bar just like chat.com currently is. Whatever it is I want to do, this is where I start. I want to send an email to a friend? I can write or tell em to write an email right from that chatbar. I got a new email? The chatbot tells me! I want to check the weather? I ask the chatbot. I want to plan a trip? I tell the chatbot and we co-create that route. The chatbot has the ability to call certain screens or maybe using genUI create those on the fly to f.ex. display the weather nicer or actually show the route created on a map. I want to see images of a place on that route? I get those inline in that chat interface. There’s no need for apps, there’s only integrations through cli’s and it’s just all there. And responses don’t need to be wordy, if I ask for images in the chat I can just get them. And the system is proactive, when he gets an email he suggests a reply, asks if you want to see images, tells you to check a stock if it knows you’re into stocks, etc.

Spotify has social features, but they suck. I wonder why don’t they improve those. Being able to send songs to another person’s Play Queue, repost songs, chat with your friends, share photos and moments with music (à la Instagram stories), etc.

Instagram has music features, but they suck. I can’t play a song without wanting to add that to a post or story, I can’t create playlists. I can favorite songs when I see them on a post or story, I can follow artists, etc.

I would have thought that both would be competing in both fields by now. Since this doesn’t seem to be the case, they should allow for deeper integration. I already since last month can add a song in Instagram to my Spotify favs without leaving Instagram, but this integration could go so much deeper.

I’m tired so I’ll keep it short.

Will a chatbot just not play a role at all when it comes to the future of computing, or will everything evolve around the chatbot? I see both visions, and the first one seems far more innovative. Let me explain.

I fire up my computer and get greeted by a chat bar, just like chat.com currently is. Whatever I want to do, this is where I start. I want to send an email to a friend? I can write or tell it to write an email right from that chat bar. I get a new email? The chatbot tells me. I want to check the weather? I ask the chatbot. I want to plan a trip? I tell the chatbot and we co-create that route. The chatbot has the ability to call certain screens or maybe, using genUI, create those on the fly to, for example, display the weather nicer or actually show the route on a map. I want to see images of a place on that route? I get those inline in that chat interface. There’s no need for apps – there are only integrations through CLIs, and it’s all just there. And responses don’t need to be wordy; if I ask for images in the chat, I can just get them. The system is proactive: when it gets an email, it suggests a reply, asks if I want to see images, tells me to check a stock if it knows I’m into stocks, etc.

Why does moving from an iPhone SE 2nd Gen to an iPhone 16 not feel exciting? Honestly, I could still be using my old phone with a new battery, and there’s nothing the new one lets me do that really changes anything.

I originally wanted to buy a Google Pixel because it would have been exciting to try something totally different. Sure, I losing Airdrop and shared family iCloud is pretty stupid, but otherwise, I wouldn’t really miss much. Here in Europe, everyone just uses WhatsApp, so iMessage isn’t a big deal.

Going with a Pixel would have been new and exciting, just not necessarily better. It wouldn’t have been the smart choice, only the fun one. And I think that’s how a lot of people who switch to Android feel.

I wrote about unifying app experiences on mobile a few years ago and called it Othara. Back then, I thought of it as “forcing developers to use the unified layouts of the OS,” just like I can quickly set up a SwiftUI application that will absolutely feel like an iOS app. But with the rise of AI, it’s actually possible to have the AI generate the user interface on the fly based on templates—better than ever. If every app is the same, built using a set of components and filled with content, then AI could learn how to do things easier and better than it ever could with current systems like Apple’s App Intents.

Why is there a need for apps to look different? Why does WhatsApp have to look different from Messages, or Spotify from Apple Music?

Phones are stagnating. It didn’t feel exciting at all moving from an iPhone SE 2nd gen to an iPhone 16. Imagine how it would’ve felt going from, for example, an iPhone 12 to the 16. OS updates get me excited, but this wasn’t it.
How can it be that Apple’s UI is full of little issues—animations missing or gradients being cut off? That doesn’t reflect well; they used to care more. How come no QA person cares? Why do I have a list of 10 UI bugs just in the onboarding when you get your iPhone?

Simple websites are generally better. That’s the short version.

They load faster. You find what you came for. You read. You click. You buy. You leave. That’s conversion.

As much as page builders try to sell you on unlimited design flexibility, having a more complex design just for the sake of it doesn’t solve anything.

Artificial intelligence becomes the primary interface through which humans access knowledge and it’s time to rethink how we store information in the first place.

Currently, writing is our most reliable method of recording knowledge. But right now information goes from

The result? The article itself is never touched. And this needs to be acknowledged and addressed by a frontend-less web.