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Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over

The era of clicking buttons is over. Sierra's Bret Taylor explains why AI agents just made your UI obsolete.

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A founding AI infrastructure player is making a bold contrarian claim about the future of software interfaces. This signals a fundamental shift in how the industry views human-computer interaction—and what it means for every software company's product roadmap.

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  1. Bret Taylor (Sierra co-founder) public statement on AI agents replacing traditional UI

  2. Prediction: software interfaces will become obsolete

  3. Agents-as-capability framing suggests industry consensus moving toward agentic workflows over button-click UX

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Publisher excerpt: Co-founder of Sierra predicts that AI agents will make software interfaces obsolete.
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