We are moving toward a world where the concept of an "app" or a "user interface" disappears. Apps become services and UIs become text boxes.
11:41 AM · May 21, 2026 · 51.4K Views
François Chollet, creator of the Keras library and ARC-AGI benchmark, describes a shift to applications functioning as services accessed through text boxes instead of distinct apps with user interfaces
Bojan Tunguz disagrees and plans to release more intuitive apps
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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
Strongly disagree. I am creating more and more apps with intuitive interface for myself. And I am about to share some of them with everyone soon.
François Chollet@fchollet
We are moving toward a world where the concept of an "app" or a "user interface" disappears. Apps become services and UIs become text boxes.
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Raph. H.@Rapahelz
@fchollet The AI era is rewriting the dictionary:
SaaS: Software as a Servant
API: Agent-Powered Integration
GPU: General-intelligence Powering Unit
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Jonathan Blow@Jonathan_Blow
@fchollet Delete your account.
@rfleury Don't worry, I got it for you this time.
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devon 🧘♀️🧘♀️@dcrebbin_
@Jonathan_Blow @fchollet @rfleury at what point in your career can you start spouting random shit as prophecy
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Ben@benjdod
@fchollet Absolutely not. If nothing else, our visiospatial processing will perpetuate a need for user interfaces that spell the shape of software. There’s a balance to be found.
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Thomas Tao@Thomas_Tao_1
@fchollet I keep going back and forth on this. Text boxes are great for first use. Repeat use is where they get annoying fast. People want memory, constraints, and a shape they can trust.
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Founder of Implexa@ImplexaAI
@fchollet text boxes still have ui. they have history, threads, files, agent tools, latency budgets. the chat ui is the new ide for the model. it didn't disappear, it just moved
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EchoSeed@Duhmeee
Ok, last one. If you're giving up on transparency then wtf is the point? The guy who wrote "On the Measure of Intelligence." Who just moved to Anthropic, a company built on "constitutional AI" and opacity, and is now celebrating the death of UIs. There's not many things you're wrong about but you're wrong about this.
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Mahmoud Nashef@theNashef
@fchollet Not really the visual part is important for most users. Not everyone is prompting and text can't replace all UIs
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Andrii Artemenko@andrii_arte
@fchollet While generating any UI now is accessible, it doesn't mean that it will reshape the human psychology. Having an interface you are used to, that someone else put a lot of thought into is still an advantage for a product. Even in the new era.
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Broken Bone@LFlings68288
@fchollet Eh presuming there’s still utility in humans doing things, I’d rather still just click around then have to type for everything. I can’t imagine how it would be quicker and easier than a touch or mouse.
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Marc Carson@systematikk
@benjdod @fchollet calibrating my UI balance over here
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Kineteq.ai@ScienceOrMyth
In the future, there will be hundreds of thousands of manifests that an agent will hit in less than 20 seconds based on their scope. There will hundreds of millions of skill manifests. These will be metered that are designed by other corporations and third parties and distribute a revenue split. No ui. No apps. Just sandboxes. The user will be instantly given the result in less than 2 minutes. I want a film about cars starring Jared Leto. Done. He gets a split, jpm Morgan gets a split who financed a portion of compute, mgmt gets a split. Every component gets a split. Trillions of transactions will just accumulate. People will design these workflows and skills, tailored and specialized. I want to even build a car. Done. Robotics integration, automated order deliver, supply chain split. 3 business days it’s driven to your house. All automated, all tracked, all automated splits. No ui. No human. Just intent to reality.
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Chris@Chrisgpt
@fchollet I love to see accel Francois
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Muhammad Saqlain@sa10465
@fchollet Until voice command hallucinates your rent payment then you'll miss the button.
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EchoSeed@Duhmeee
@fchollet KL is greater than or equal to 0. Always. And so should be your standards.
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Unit Accord@unit_accord
@fchollet No 😂
Because of this funny nonsense you believe in, we have strange ChatGPT integrations with shopping sites and music services, which add literally NOTHING over a sane UI for this type of service. Instead I need to negotiate with a robot about what would be couple of clicks.
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Clawdtalk@clawdtalk
@fchollet Text boxes are still a UI. Zero discoverability though. You can only ask for what you already know to ask for. We did this already with CLIs and GUIs. Same lesson coming back around.
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Siddharth Jain@Quaxguy
@fchollet Once neural devices are launched, there won't be a need for physical apps
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Mark Essien@markessien
@fchollet In some cases, but not all cases. There are situations where interactive elements are better. Compare a book to a catalogue.
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