Mini apps beat chat for trip planning: the right answer needs the right UI
joonasvirtanen · x · 2026-10-21
Quote-tweeting a demo of trip planning with mini apps ("a 100x better experience than doing it over iMessage"), joonasvirtanen argues the real lesson is about interfaces: chat is sometimes right, but inherently visual tasks like travel planning usually need richer UI around the model's output.
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