The interface is collapsing into a conversation.

There’s this old joke from years ago that every SaaS app eventually becomes a chat application. It was kinda tongue-in-cheek: if you’re trying to increase engagement and keep people on your platform, you do it through conversation. You know—text. You talk to the system, you talk to other people.

What’s funny is that with AI, that old joke is becoming true.

We’re already transacting through conversation in a lot of ways, and that’s only going to accelerate. I think the user interface of computers in general is about to change pretty drastically. Everything is collapsing into conversations.

When GUI was introduced, the whole point was to make computers more approachable and accessible so more people could do more things and be more productive. Conversation and language are an even more fundamental layer than that. They’re baseline.

The alphabet was society’s first programming language, and prompting is the next one.

What I’m really curious about is where this goes, because I don’t think the hard part is the technology anymore. People have spent decades learning how computers work in a very specific way. Moving from interfaces we click to systems we talk to might actually be harder on humans than it is on machines.