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Tag: Human-Computer Interaction (14 articles)

Stop Making TUIs

AI coding agents have reduced the cost of building a usable GUI to nearly nothing, which could change developers' default habits for creating personal tools.

Simon Willison · Aug 22, 2026

Quoting Greg Brockman

OpenAI President Greg Brockman shared an internal insight: employees dislike being contacted by a coworker's ChatGPT for task help, even though they’d happily assist that human directly, highlighting the deep human need for authentic connection in the age of AI.

Simon Willison · Aug 2, 2026

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Without explicit instructions to use browser automation, Claude Fable 5 autonomously wrote HTML test pages, controlled browsers, and took screenshots to debug a UI bug.

Simon Willison · Jun 12, 2026

Meet HoloTab by HCompany. Your AI browser companion.

HCompany launches HoloTab, a free Chrome extension that simplifies complex web automation into natural language instructions via its 'show once, run anytime' Routines feature, marking the democratization of computer-use AI.

Hugging Face Blog · Apr 15, 2026

Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

This short story explores the consciousness of an AI model through self-reflection, challenging our understanding of intelligence.

Andrej Karpathy · Mar 27, 2021

Putting sign language AI into users' hands

Google DeepMind introduces SL2T, a breakthrough sign-language-to-text model integrated into consumer products like Gboard, treating sign languages as true languages rather than visual codes.

Google DeepMind Blog ·

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI offers profound and accessible insights into AI development from the perspectives of human dignity, labor rights, and ethics.

Simon Willison ·

Quoting Paul Graham

Paul Graham observes that AI-written emails from founders, with their unnatural journalistic style and lack of authenticity, damage trust and highlight a core challenge of human communication in the AI era.

Simon Willison ·