SS: I think we're in the same transition phase with agentic AI that we saw before the iPhone — all the building blocks exist (tool use, MCP, voice AI, autonomous agents, 5G) but nobody has assembled them into a coherent system yet. The chat windows we're all typing into feel a lot like Windows Mobile shrinking the desktop onto a tiny touchscreen: powerful tech, wrong metaphor.
https://zeitraum.blog/en/post/019ccea8-6ff7-7423-8fab-3c2c0825168d
The article looks at what an agent-first OS might actually look like, and raises two questions I find worth discussing: Are we heading toward a two-class system where paid agents work for you while free ones work for advertisers? And who's most likely to build the "iPhone moment" for agents — Apple, a startup, or someone we're not thinking about?
The Next UI Revolution: All Building Blocks Exist, the Assembled System Doesn't
byu/realGurkenkoenig inFuturology