Ask HN: Why are we still building web UI's just for human consumption?

1 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by ud0

Item id: 49348614

4 Comments

verdverm

4 hours ago

Why would I want my Ai using a web page instead of an API or CLI? Seems wasteful to spend tokens on image processing when a more deterministic, text-based alternative is/should be available

ud0

an hour ago

there are cases where an API is not feasible

verdverm

9 minutes ago

than that is the exceptional case, not the default

I struggle to think of a case where it is technically impossible to have an API because the website is presumably making API calls under the hood