Stop Making TUIs
- ID
- 16475
- Status
- new
- Published
- 22 Aug 2026, 12:07 AM
- Fetched
- 22 Aug 2026, 12:42 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Excerpt
Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March, and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually knocking out real UIs for my other projects yet, but I'm running out of excuses! Thomas: If you haven’t tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Go build a native UI. It’ll probably change the way you think. Tags: thomas-ptacek, ai, generative-ai, llms, vibe-coding, coding-agents
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