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Text as an interface | thesephist.com
- - “Textual interfaces make automation trivial, and automation tools much easier to build.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “Modern software workflows cross application and service boundaries all the time. Textual interfaces provide an enforceable, rigorous contract between services and applications that can act as the interfaces for apps to integrate with external services, in a way that visual interfaces can’t.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “Textual interfaces are everywhere in the modern workplace. Slash-commands in Slack and Discord and Notion, hash-tags for channels and tagging, special syntax for searching and querying data across applications, @-mentions in social media and team work environments, and so on. We’re training ourselves to be more savvy users of the textual interfa... See more
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “… workflows driven by text interfaces are easier to share, document, and iterate over time within a team. Text interfaces make workflows more concrete.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “Workflows, not data, are the subject of product innovation now. And the subject is easier to study, to compare, to share and extend, when it’s concrete and durable, not an organic, ephemeral series of actions.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “Text interfaces are much easier for machines to use. And as more work is done autonomously by the workflows we teach machines to perform, text interfaces are starting to matter just as much as human ones.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “the focus of software services has shifted from manipulating data to manipulating workflows.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- - “… why are we seeing a resurgence in this trend now? I think the easiest factor we can identify is that more people entering the workforce are unafraid of textual interfaces, because they’ve been typing and messaging and tagging their friends online all their life.”
from Text as an interface | thesephist.com by Linus Lee
Brian Sholis added 2y ago