Stop making TUIs: agents make native GUIs your default
Thomas Ptacek's argument is simple: with coding agents handling the tedious work, the old excuse for shipping yet another terminal tool is gone. He summoning a Markdown viewer, a SageMath frontend with LaTeX output, and an LLM-driven music player as proof that small native apps now cost almost nothing. If you're still reaching for a TUI for a personal tool, you're doing yourself a disservice.