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Agent Standards Best Viewed in Every Assistant
Summary
Key Insights
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Generative AI platforms lack unified standards, causing costly, fragmented UX development.
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The web standards movement succeeded through community collaboration and public pressure.
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Separation of content and design enabled accessibility and future-proofing on the web.
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Current AI interfaces offer little control over the design details compared to traditional web design.
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Proprietary AI companies may resist compatibility to preserve exclusive user bases.
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AI tools risk devaluing human creativity and make credit and provenance recognition difficult.
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Young designers and engineers face uncertainty in career paths due to AI’s disruptive impact.
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Open source and community-driven efforts are critical in establishing AI interface standards.
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Historical patterns in tech show crises and revolutions tend to ‘rhyme’ over decades.
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Activism in tech today requires new models due to the vastly different power dynamics.
Notable Quotes
"We don’t have to deal with spacer.gif anymore."
"The separation of content from design led to accessibility and interoperability."
"Right now, designers have to think about how this appears on Slack versus Teams versus other platforms."
"It feels like there’s a real brain interacting with you, which is scary."
"We’re building our house in somebody else’s sandbox."
"If you execute perfectly on a leader’s bad strategy, and then the company goes out of business, you get punished for executing."
"History doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme."
"There’s going to be fewer players in AI, and that power differential is huge."
"We need to control how the assistant evaluates design and accessibility."
"Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power."
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