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Current UI tools lack verbs, requiring new design paradigms

Existing design tools are optimized for static elements, but AI-driven workflows require dynamic, context-aware interactions that don't fit traditional UI patterns. Designers must invent new ways to represent processes like 'go gather information' or 'auto-complete this task', which aren't just clickable buttons but ongoing actions. This is a fundamental shift requiring rethinking how users interact with software beyond static screens.

RafaelY Combinator00:01:17

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we don't really have the tooling yet to kind of draw verbs on the screen and so that's what's really fascinating how you know this software is now emerging in this new AO World Rafael
it almost feels it almost feels like back in like 2010 or so when touch um devices really kind of came on the market and everything had to reinvented kind of Touch first and we're at one of those moments again where like all of software all the components that we kind of took for granted um they are really being reimagined and reshaped by the builders and startups and designers out there right now Host

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Nouns vs Verbs in AI Interfaces

Traditional software interfaces are built around static 'nouns' like buttons and forms, but AI introduces dynamic 'verbs' that execute workflows autonomously. This shift requires entirely new design paradigms to visualize and control AI-driven actions, marking a fundamental reset for software interfaces similar to the touch revolution of 2010.

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