Stop Making TUIs

Coding agents can make a native graphical interface worth trying even for a small personal utility. That is the argument behind Stop Making TUIs: standard desktop controls already handle interactions such as scrolling and text selection, while agents can help write the platform-specific code.

Simon Willison adds a concrete example in a response: still using two AI-built monitoring apps daily months after creating them. The original account also questions the accuracy of their measurements. These examples support experimenting with a more convenient interface; interface convenience alone does not validate the information it displays.