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LLM's are enabling a reimagination of UI. Wheres the biggest opportunity in UI that hasn't kept up to date? legacy and regulated software in the long tail. Thats the disruption opportunity for LLM's.

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Imagine a Banking website. It has lot of predefined flows of what can be achieved. These flows have steps arranged in a dependency graph. From the server side, a llm can ask users for inputs to satisfy the dependencies of the task which user wants to accomplish. We will have intuitive UI interfaces in all languages of the world.

But if it's a predefined list of flows, you can just throw Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright/whatever other automation tool at it, rather than relying on an unstable AI that will do different things every time.

This is just a solution in search of a problem. AIs aren't reliable enough if the content changes constantly since it'll just click on the "close my account" button for no reason half the time, while a legacy website with no changes is much easier to program a tool like Selenium around than relying on the AI that will still be making random choices half the time.

I think you are confusing client side automation with server side customization (out of the box internationalization, if a user can't understand complex technical terms, llm can explain them in simple terms with examples built on the fly to illustrate the point) which was my point. I was talking about the future of UI itself.

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