When interfaces become disposable

"The street finds its own uses for things" is getting to be vastly more true than it was! (And happy upcoming 40th birthday to Burning Chrome!!)

I do hope that, even though individual software is not super valuable, that people find broader general systems that help them tie together their many disposable softwares, that their disposable softwares build off of. Just a hope. Seems like quick and dirty is winning, but having more platform underfoot that is reusable and durable and used frequently I think will be powerful. Pi as a self modifying platform is a very lo-fi version of this, is a self extending platform, which is amazing. https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

The suggestion to have APIs for your product to remain relevant in the new world is extremely good. It still requires understanding the API world at least somewhat. I'd complement that suggestion here with a recommendation to try to lean in hard to webmcp, if you really want to help your users to find agentic success. WebMCP allows for contextual exposure of what the user is already seeing on the page, brings much more session context in that APIs typically do. That seamless blending of user experience & API/m2m control is enormously powerful for letting users go at things. https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037501

Interfaces strip away Identity. Lot of products are built around monetizing identity.

A corollary of Right To Repair — ability to access an API or service layer allows real customization.

For vendors offering a valuable product that provides data or info, this will be a massive boost

For vendors whose offerings are primarily lock-in to a particular interface, ummm, good luck with that...

I wrote this yesterday and it’s apropos here:

> Mark my words: The era of “Personal computing” is over Large scale Capital is not gonna make any more investments into microelectronics going forward Capital is incentivized to make large data centers and very high speed private Internet, not public Internet, private Internet like starlink So the same way in the 1970s it was the main frame era and server side computing, which turned into server side rendering, which then turned into client side rendering which culminated in the era of the private computer in your home and then finally in your pocket we’re going back to server side model communication and that’s going to encompass effectively the gateway to all other information which will be increasingly compartmentalized into remote data centers and high-speed access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042473