'45 Years of UI Evolution, and We're Back to Typing Commands' Resonates on r/ChatGPT
r/ChatGPT (95up/25c)·low signal
A short r/ChatGPT post (95up/25c) argues that decades of interface design spent eliminating the command line have been reversed by chat-first AI, and that the interface of the future may look like the interface of the past. The comment thread splits between treating natural language as a genuinely different modality from shell syntax and arguing the regression is real for discoverability — you cannot browse a menu of what a model can do. Relevant to anyone designing agent UX, where the dominant pattern is currently a text box with no affordances.