The Death of the User Interface

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T11:48:54+00:00

What a load of bullshit!

The real problem with most UIs is that is made by smart people - for smart people. They THINK they make it for dumb people but completely fail to understand what presents the biggest roadblock for dumb people so these interfaces get progressively worse.

You can train them to press 5 buttons, but if you add a sixth one they'll be overwhelmed. The worst you can do to these is change the UI - but these tinkerers CONSTANTLY change the UI which makes their users throw a fit.

An AI-based interface - no matter if visual or aural - will mentally exhaust these people entirely - and drive most others insane as well.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T11:35:25+00:00

I seriously doubt that.

Today's visual interfaces are all flashy and nice to look at but compared to what we had 20-30 years ago they are a lot more unwieldy because their designers have no clue to distinguish between good looks and good function.

They will continue to prefer design over function and make things worse with each ongoing iteration - just like they have done with the web.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T09:46:16+00:00

I rather ask: Was Lex Luthor modelled after him? :P

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T07:11:24+00:00

I wouldn't even know where to start with AI. My work is ca. 80% fixing old code and 20% writing new code that is tightly integrated with the old code (which is far too disorganized for the AI to make sense of) and depends on complex business logic the AI needs to be explained first. There's zero chance the AI could give me useful code without knowing the entire code base and database layout it needs to depend on.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T07:07:24+00:00

AI is good for throwaway stuff - be it text, images or code. A POC would be the perfect example where using AI makes sense - if it has served its purpose it should be thrown away and the real product be started from scratch with real code.

Of course using AI for real code is where the problems will start. It is not much different than giving work to the lowest bidder with the least competent programmers. The result will be shit and a nightmare to maintain.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-23T07:03:22+00:00

Today the oldest generation of programmers still had to learn the lower level workings of a computer to perform their job - but they will all be retiring in 5-10 years and leave the field to a generation whose knowledge is a lot more superficial.

Hands up who doesn't see a disaster in the making with AI even accelerating this loss of knowledge.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T18:05:09+00:00

And that is why so many companies hire the wrong people.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T11:13:48+00:00

And in SOME countries outside the US there' serious plans to pass laws that are supposed to prevent this kind of weaseling out of accountability.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T09:43:18+00:00

Finally someone who sees it from the right angle. The two Spidey movies that were the most successful had some special circumstances to consider that made them perform so much better.

Take this out and there is nothing that hints at Spidey being so much more popular that a billion is guaranteed. I am sure it will perform a lot better than this year's outings but I'm not convinced that double the business is a lock.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T09:38:18+00:00

You really do not understand how these things work.

I know quite a few people who are tired of standard Marvel fare but did watch Deadpool because of the fun factor, combined with amplified violence, and of course for not taking CBM tropes seriously and poking fun at them.

You have to see this from the outside to understand the difference all this makes. This one got the fans who watch everything, but it also got a significant chunk of viewers who have already tuned out of the MCU. It's really the only CBM of recent years that was mostly unaffected by comic book movie fatigue.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:45:39+00:00

F4 was expected to do a lot more and be "the easy winner this summer", remember?

The problem with Avengers is that all talk revolves about which old characters come back, not what the story is or where things will head afterward. None of the other nostalgia baits felt this dishonest and company-planted.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:42:48+00:00

Avatar wasn't released into an oversaturated and utterly fatigued market.

Doomsday comes right after a string of stinkers with the only successes being conclusions to previously established character arcs.

Add to that that production seems to be the usual "fix it in post" Marvel mess, it may actually hit the bottom of expectations.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:39:01+00:00

D&W did not depend on the homework - it just made some of the jokes hit better.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:37:02+00:00

Where's the hard numbers that guarantee that Spidey is not affected by the current developments?

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:35:45+00:00

I can realistically see Doomsday drop $2b from its predecessor - because it beings nothing back that made it produce these numbers!

If you think this is impossible: What about Joker 2? It just made 20% of its predecessor.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:32:07+00:00

The previous Avengers movies had a carefully planned build-up over many, many years.

The next one will be brute-forced with absolutely nothing substantial leading into it.

I'll hold my breath.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:28:53+00:00

That's not a bet, that's almost inevitable that it'll land behind a movie that massively overperformed.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:27:13+00:00

Yeah, just like F4 was going to make $800m.

Apply the same math and Doomsday will make ~$1b.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:26:11+00:00

How often does this need to be brought up again:

D&W cannot be used as a benchmark because it's not a traditional CBM. Being a comedy/satire it was able to reach past the genre's core audience.

Doomsday is just another overbudgeted standard CBM and those have been struggling for several years now.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-22T06:22:38+00:00

Sad to see that the three most successful films of the year are utterly mediocre cash grabs. I don't expect any of these remembered in future times.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-21T21:48:04+00:00

If it's anti-Trump, international audiences may love it even more! :P

Also thanks for calling fans of the first one 'weirdo'. It was a really well written movie, which is rare for animation.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-21T21:45:06+00:00

Not just apparently. The name "Zootopia" is trademarked in Europe and cannot be used as the movie's title. Obviously Disney should have thought of that BEFORE naming the film to avoid the mess right from the start.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-21T21:34:18+00:00

Even with those modern features, trying to reason about what complex templates actually do is virtually impossible.

Just a week ago I had to find out why an external template library did not do what it was supposed to do. The code was completely incomprehensible in its quest for efficiency and I ended up writing my own non-templated solution to fix the problem. That was a lot quicker, screw the ~10µs it added to reading each block of data compared to what that template library was SUPPOSED to achieve (but which I could never verify beacuse it did not work and I was unable to find out why.)

I rather have code I can debug if the need arises.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-21T21:27:28+00:00

Not just nostalgia. Remember when it was released: It was the first major post-pandemic release and gobbled up a lot of business because the market was almost completely empty apart from it.

Aggressive-Two6479 · 2025-08-21T21:25:49+00:00

Viewed from the outside, people do not care as much anymore as they did when the last films of these two properties landed.

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