Engineer는 만들고 창조하는 사람이다. 크리에이터가 되기 위해서 자신의 분야를 넘어선 사례들을 봐야한다.

1. 백종원 씨가 창업한지 무려 30년 만에 상장(IPO)을 준비 중이라고 한다.
2. 좀 더 정확하게 말하면, 백종원 씨가 창업한 더본코리아가 과거에도 상장을 시도한 바 있으나, 코로나 팬데믹 등으로 인해 상장이 스탑되었다가, 이번에 다시 도전한다고.
3. 사업을 시작한 후부터, 농담처럼 ‘단기적으로 빨리 성장하는 것보다는, 30년을 끈질기게 살아남아서, 그때쯤 상장할 수 있는 회사를 만드는 것이 바램이라면 바램"이라는 말을 종종 했는데..
4. 백종원 씨조차도 상장까지 가는 데 30년이 걸렸다니 괜히 마음이 겸허해졌다. 스타트업 씬에 있다 보면, 마치 빠른 게 진리이자 선인 것처럼 느껴지지만, 안정적인 기업을 만드는 데는 생각보다 훨씬 더 오랜 시간이 필요한지도 모른다.

Generative AI created a renewed interest in text-based interfaces. For the first time in history, computers can truly "understand" natural language and respond to open-ended questions and poorly structured commands.
For many, this was a callback to the UNIX philosophy as best articulated by @tszzl in his famous "Text is the Universal Interface" blog post that came out just a few months before ChatGPT.

While tools like DALLE and Midjourney are entirely driven by text, many apps like RunwayML augmented traditional UIs with prompt-based generative AI.

But actually, looking a little closer, you can start to see that Midjourney is growing its own JIT UI for controls inside the chat window.
Some more recent examples of JIT UIs:
- @perplexity_ai copilot where the AI can generate forms on the fly to get more information from the user to tune the search.
- ChatGPT Code Interpreter and products like @JuliusAI_ that can show charts or, in some cases, entire UI.

In computing, nothing ever is a silver bullet. Every new system creates new problems to solve and this one is no different.

As we're all finding out, Chatbots present novel UX challenges, which were best articulated by @Wattenberger in "Why Chatbots Are Not the Future". And JIT UI introduces a new set of challenges, such as how to think about state and persistence.

It's unclear that JIT UIs holds the answer, but it's a thread worth exploring. It's also unclear if this is the kind of thing that startups can innovate on, as it's predicated on having a platform, and UI innovations get copied super quickly.

However, clearly, it's time to try and reimagine UI and solve some issues with GUIs that have plagued computing for decades!

https://x.com/amasad/status/1749993684580593991?s=46&t=h5Byg6Wosg8MJb4pbPSDow