My takeaway from the demo is less that "it's different each time", but more a "it can be different for different users and their styles of operating" - a poweruser can now see a different Settings UI than a basic user, and it can be generated realtime based on the persona context of the user.

Example use case (chosen specifically for tech): An IDE UI that starts basic, and exposes functionality over time as the human developer's skills grow.

On one hand, I'm incredibly impressed by the technology behind that demo. On the other hand, I can't think of many things that would piss me off more than a non-deterministic operating system.

I like my tools to be predictable. Google search trying to predict that I want the image or shopping tag based on my query already drives me crazy. If my entire operating system did that, I'm pretty sure I'd throw my computer out a window.

it's impressive but it seems like a crappier UX? that none of the patterns can really be memorized

I feel like one quickly hits a similar partial observability problem as with e.g. light sensors. How often do you wave around annoyed because the light turned off.

To get _truly_ self driving UIs you need to read the mind of your users. It's some heavy tailed distribution all the way down. Interesting research problem on its own.

We already have adaptive UIs (profiles in VSC anyone? Vim, Emacs?) they're mostly under-utilized because takes time to setup + most people are not better at designing their own workflow relative to the sane default.

This is crazy cool, even if not necessarily the best use case for this idea

I would bet good money that many of the functions they chose not to drill down into (such as settings -> volume) do nothing at all or cause an error.

It's a fronted generator. It's fast. That's cool. But is being pitched as a functioning OS generator and I can't help but think it isn't given the failure rates for those sorts of tasks. Further, the success rates for HTML generation probably _are_ good enough for a Holmes-esque (perhaps too harsh) rugpull (again, too harsh) demo.

A cool glimpse into what the future might look like in any case.

That looks both cool and infuriating

Having different documents come up every time you go into the documents directory seems hellishly terrible.

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