Schmidt predicts agents will kill the UI — and gets publicly mocked for it
burkov · x · 2026-09-20
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues user interfaces will 'largely go away' because agents speak natural language and UIs can be generated on demand — 'I can say, generate me a set of buttons that solves this problem, and it's generated for you.' Today's websites are designed for humans; that premise changes in the agent era.
ML researcher Burkov pushes back hard, mocking Schmidt's predictive record ('that of a third grader') and citing his old claim that young people would change their names as adults over childhood posts. A real debate over whether agents end traditional UI.
Related event: Schmidt Claims UI Will Disappear in the Agent Era, Drawing Mockery(2 posts)→
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