The case against conversational interfaces

Why the fuss about conversational programming?

First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.

AI is teaching us to speak like bots, and it’s a problem - Fast Company

AI is creeping into our everyday conversations, making us less patient and teaching us to 'prompt' others instead of talking to them.

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.

Americans' Views on AI Chatbots, Smart Devices and AI's Impact

More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults.

How we use AI at Stalwart

It is difficult to have a conversation about software in 2026 without AI showing up in it. Two years ago the interesting question was…

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…

Do You Speak ChatGPTese? Beyond Writing, AI Is Also Flattening The Way We Talk

A study of hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos and podcasts reveals that AI isn’t just changing how we write, it’s subtly altering our spoken language too, raising new concerns about cultural homogenization and who controls the words we use. A study of hundreds of thousands of lectures and podcasts reveals that AI isn’t just changing how we write, it’s subtly altering our spoken language too, raising new concerns about cultural homogenization and who controls the words we use.

AI Agents Will Become the New UI, and Apps Take a Backseat

For decades, screens, keyboards, and structured applications have shaped our relationship with technology. People learned how to interact with computers

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

On-screen and now IRL: FSU researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults

The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas

By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models lag far...

Beautiful UI — Crafted primitives for AI-native interfaces

A small library of extremely crafted, copy-paste components for chat agents, thinking states, human-in-the-loop approvals, and everything agents need to talk to humans beautifully.

What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about AI

Everybody’s talking about it; everybody’s tired of talking about it. Why aren’t we making more progress in the discussion?

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.

LibreChat - The Open-Source AI Platform

LibreChat brings together all your AI conversations in one unified, customizable interface.