UI Isn't Dead
A company won't be a blank shell of headless agents. Terminals didn't kill apps, and agents won't either.
Do you really think a company will just be a blank, empty shell of headless agents doing things blind? Undocumented, not visible, no controls, no buttons, no configuration, no dashboards to see the results?
UIs have so much room to innovate, from being more fluid, to being emergent, to being immediately customisable based on context or need. They won’t go away.
If you think terminals are suddenly the optimal way to manage all information, then you’re mistaken. Proof: plenty of people have been terminal literate for years, and they all still needed apps with a UI for the things they do on computers.
Terminal tools can be vastly improved by embracing UI as well. GUI versions of CLI tools are superior in nearly every way, and there are so few downsides for the kind of tasks you’d do in a terminal. Session history, naming conversations, grouping them, shared context, seeing what’s automated and what’s scheduled, file pickers, UI for the integrated pieces. It’s all just a better experience for 99% of users. And the 1% arguably too, they’ve just got the superhuman memory to get around the missing affordances with less friction.
I learned Claude Code in the terminal. Then the desktop app came out and, for a non-coder, it made thread management across projects so much easier. That was me off to the races.