Luke Wroblewski says agentic software should summarize work, not expose every step
LukeW · x · 2026-07-24
Luke Wroblewski argues that as more software uses agentic flows—models calling tools and interleaving reasoning with actions—the main UX problem becomes the same wall of text for users to parse. He suggests collapsing the process and output into a single component, with an optional deeper breakdown for people who want to inspect what happened.
The core idea is to replace noisy step-by-step logs with a concise summary of what was done and what the outcome was, while still letting advanced users drill into the underlying trace.
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