The GUI may be the greatest accidental AI API ever created
signulll · x · 2026-09-11
A dev thread argues AI's rapid progress at browser and computer use is no accident: GUIs are a giant, repeated vocabulary of affordances (buttons, menus, forms, dialogs, drag/drop), browsers add DOM standardization, and there are natural feedback loops plus an easy undo via the back button — as if the GUI were purposely built for training AI. 'The GUI may end up being one of the greatest accidental AI APIs ever created.'
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