{
  "id": 2401247,
  "title": "Stop Making TUIs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/stop-making-tuis",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-21T16:07:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}