AI will also replace the "profession" of website visitor. Nobody will care about a website itself, because (1) AI will crawl it, and (2) people will just ask AI directly.
1. Software is fast and UI is instant, things happen instantly
2. UI is instant and software is slow - UI will lag
3. UI is animated with transitions and sofware is slow - people are initially happy, but it wears off in weeks
4. Software gets optimized, now UI animations take longer than getting the underlying data
5. The logical endpoint. Software is fast. UI needs to be instant Remove all animation and let UI render instantly; This is what most users actually prefer.
The parallel with LLM websites is direct imo. We're now getting these fancy websites, but once the magic wears off, everyone will go back to the 'text and links on page' style.
I don’t think this is the case in general, well done animations are nice.
What if you could just hover a link and all the important data would just appear?
What if you started typing a command in console, and the execution results would appear speculatively as soon as you hit the key?
Some programs do this to some limited degree, but besides the humble textbox and outside videogames, instant interactivity is seldom seen.
SUBSTANCE.
That's all that matters.
Sorry if I'm reading your comment the wrong way but it seems like this is the interpretation that many people would have (ha!), if you meant it more ambiguously then I apologize. I'd agree in the case where this is a neutral outcome where some will use it to delude themselves, many will use it in a way that doesn't stray too far from the norm and others will use it to great effect to improve their understanding.
It'll be something else - 'agents' paradigm will evolve and look nothing like it does today. After OAI etc crash and burn that is.