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OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by WithinReason »

znnajdla wrote: post #25

The most interesting part about this for me is that they decided to create their own language or DSL for the task at hand. So it's not just a large language model; it's an LLM with its own language. I have a feeling that the best AI systems to come will, in fact, be a complete package like this: a harness, a DSL, and an entire package designed to produce certain outcomes cheaper and faster. And producing that complet…

I agree. I'm waiting for someone to invent a programming language designed for LLMs where for a given partial program p and candidate token t it's possible to tell whether p+t can be the prefix of a correct program or not so that t can be excluded from the LLM's probability distribution at generation time, so the LLM can only generate correct programs. Or something like that.

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by tracyhenry »

Generative UI is unsolved because current models do not have taste and end up generating the same kind of slop.

I'm amazed that this blog doesn't even have a single screenshot/photo of the kind of UI they can generate.

Focusing on benchmarks in this domain feels very wrong.

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by cpill »

WithinReason wrote: post #31
znnajdla wrote: post #25

The most interesting part about this for me is that they decided to create their own language or DSL for the task at hand. So it's not just a large language model; it's an LLM with its own language. I have a feeling that the best AI systems to come will, in fact, be a complete package like this: a harness, a DSL, and an entire package designed to produce certain outcomes cheaper and faster. And producing that complet…

I agree. I'm waiting for someone to invent a programming language designed for LLMs where for a given partial program p and candidate token t it's possible to tell whether p+t can be the prefix of a correct program or not so that t can be excluded from the LLM's probability distribution at generation time, so the LLM can only generate correct programs. Or something like that.

doesn't this imply it would solve the halting problem?

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by JohnBooty »

hatefulheart wrote: post #28

Someone steel man the case for users actually wanting to be a UI designer for the application they pay you for.

GenUI isn't about designing cosmetic "skins." (Usually, anyway. I guess it could be used for that)

It's generally for letting users customize the own workflows. How many times have you, or one of your users, liked a piece of software because it mostly fits an existing workflow but that remaining 20% is an annoyance, or maybe even a dealbreaker?

This is probably more common for businesses. They have existing procedures. and they want your software to fit into their existing processes and workflows... not the other way around.

GenUI is far from a one size fits all approach or magic bullet, but it can address a lot of those situations that either would have been dealbreakers, annoyances, or change requests. I suppose it can also help with user retention; once they've put the time and effort into customizing your product they theoretically are less likely to switch to a competitor.

Existing OpenAI/Anthropic models seem to already handle this pretty well. As you might expect, letting users describe their own UI is pretty easy. The hard part is making it work and making sure they don't escape their sandbox...

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by cpill »

raincole wrote: post #10

Do you hate the designer changed the UI of your favorite app so you have to relearn it every three months? Congrats! Now you need to relearn it every time you open the app.

Chat Ui killed the GUI star. language is The ultimate UI. I guess you still need graphs (mainly so you can have dramatic moments in movies), but that's it

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by c-hendricks »

tomashertus wrote: post #7

Quite interesting to see no real comments here for 50+ minutes, so I will kick it off. I'm a huge believer in this future of software. Having the UI layer completely abstracted from pre-written code and dynamically generated "on the fly" based on the context of the user is, I believe, the future. Just think about the complexity of localization and how many IFs you had to write to solve different language versions, et…

How do you reconcile ...

> I hate when UI teams constantly redesign perfectly fine software

... with ...

> Having the UI layer completely abstracted from pre-written code and dynamically generated "on the fly" based on the context of the user is, I believe, the future

In this scenario there's still no guarantee that the UI won't randomly change. There's no guarantee that the ui generated for the user will be the same visit to visit.

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by mcmcmc »

TaupeRanger wrote: post #21
mysterydip wrote: post #6

> Interfaces must be generated in under a second Why? Is two seconds too long? Would your other constraints be easier (usability and hardware spec) if this was longer? Does anyone actually need a UI generated in under a second?

The term "Generative UI" refers to a front-end design approach where an AI model dynamically builds a UI in real time instead of relying on static, hard-coded templates.

This just seems incredibly wasteful. What value does that add?

Re: OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI

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Post by troupo »

zahlekhan wrote: post #18
raincole wrote: post #10

Do you hate the designer changed the UI of your favorite app so you have to relearn it every three months? Congrats! Now you need to relearn it every time you open the app.

The goal of generative UI should be to make software more personal while preserving the workflows people already know. Two users might have very different interfaces, but each should have a consistent experience over time.

> The goal of generative UI should be to make software more personal while preserving the workflows people already know.

These are inherently contradictory statements.

When people actually did research instead of vibe-coding, they learned it the hard way.

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