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  "title": "Stop Making TUIs",
  "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-21T16:07:32+00:00",
  "transcript": "Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually knocking out real UIs for my other projects yet, but I'm running out of excuses! Thomas: If you haven’t tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Go build a native UI. It’ll probably change the way you think. Tags: thomas-ptacek , ai , generative-ai , llms , vibe-coding , coding-agents",
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