You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.
Chat is not the future interface. It's the future router.
Why AI won't replace your apps, but your home screen
Chatto Dev Instance
The development instance of Chatto, the lean, self-hostable chat app. Come try the latest builds and hang with the team.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable. Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, my inner designer has been bursting at the seams.
WinGPT
Do you use Windows 3.1? Do your friends send you jokes and haikus written by ChatGPT, and make you feel left out? Do you wish you had the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips? Or wish you had your very own AI chatbot on your trusty 386?
Introducing Chatto
I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.
Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Chat
The case against conversational interfaces
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way w
Ryan Singer on Twitter / X
Tools like Cursor hint at where AI-driven user interfaces are going. Chat is only 10%. Most of the output (and UI) is a domain-specific representation of the state of the work.In the case of AI coding, 90% of what you're looking at and thinking about is the IDE, the diffs, the… pic.twitter.com/z0nTUx4WnM— Ryan Singer (@rjs) June 13, 2025
Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault
We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to ha…
Chat is minimum-viable anything
Chat is the minimum-viable tool for online organizing. Without complete control over our means of communication, our ability to organize depends entirely on the goodwill of the very same hegemonic incumbents which we seek to surpass.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.