10 months ago today, I watched Charlie Kirk get assassinated. I watched the left celebrate it. I watched liars on social media make up crazy conspiracies. But today in court, the world learned that indeed a tranny loving degenerate did in fact kill Charlie. Video proof.
The tyranny of web2 is perhaps the tyranny of the UI moreso than centralization itself.
One of the best parts of the GPT UI is how slim it is. Enshittification has begun with the new chat screen now recommending content.
In our physical homez, we have near perfect control over our immediate surroundings. Furniture. Art. Appliances.
But in our digital homes- the apps we inhabit- the company decides the contents, aesthetics, utilities, etc.
I'm optimistic that ai clis and onchain app/plugins distribution could help us reclaim control over personal digital habitats.
Consider this app - I wish I could swipe on a post to like it or mark it as irrelevant. But Nikita doesn't care. Centralized apps with strong unique network effects, like X, are the hardest digital habitats to reclaim because they have the most leverage over us.
Most of the new AI systems, dashboards, crypto wallets, etc, will have massively less leverage than X. We should be able to customize their UIs to our liking, using AI of course.
Eg. if I ran Base App, I'd build in an AI native modular UI framework directly into the app so you can just talk to Base App and it'll code itself to how you like it. Want a custom NFT widget on your homepage? Fabulous, just ask.
GPT is headed in the wrong direction here. You can just feel them starting to think of their audience as cattle to be farmed. But switching costs are ultimately going to be significantly lower in this modern world and apps that actually put the user front and center as the real customer and not the farm animal are going to build great relationships around loyalty and the user's own customizations.
The future of digital ux is for consumers to have as much control over their digital homes as they do over their physical homes.