"A lot of you think it's just some buttons or a chat": dev pushes back on shallow idea of interfaces
round · x · 2026-11-05
Developer round quips that many people reduce interfaces to "some buttons or a chat," responding with the systems definition: an interface is a shared boundary of independent systems at which they interact. A pointed observation on how AI products are often built as thin chat wrappers.
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