# Are interfaces going away? - Author: Muhammed Furkan Yılmaz (@mfurkanyilmazzz) - Canonical: https://furkanmind.com/en/mind/are-interfaces-going-away - Status: Testing (testing) - Topic: What do we do in the age of AI? (https://furkanmind.com/en/topics/yapay-zeka-doneminde-biz-ne-yapacagiz) - Published: 2026-10-21 - Updated: 2026-10-21 - Language: en (translated from tr) - License: CC BY 4.0 - Note: AI translation of Furkan's Turkish original (Claude via MCP) — not yet reviewed. ## Thesis Software isn't dying, the interface is: Kodak didn't eliminate the darkroom, it made it someone else's job, and today the interface tax of screens, tabs and go-here-copy-paste is moving to AI the same way. ## Summary ## Driving yesterday Yesterday I wrote a post while driving. I didn't look at a screen once. I spoke, the AI wrote down what it understood, read it back to me, and I corrected it. By the evening the post was already scheduled. This isn't a small convenience. I think we're inside one of the biggest breaks in the history of software, and most of us don't even notice. ## Every task used to be a separate screen My days look like this: I shoot videos for YouTube, write for Threads, post on Instagram, and my ideas live on my personal site. On the other side there's my company, my clients and their work. Each of these used to be a separate screen. YouTube Studio to upload something, Threads' own scheduling screen, another one for Instagram. Calendar, meetings, notes, and my head trying to hold it all together. Uploading a single Short took me hours: write the description, add the cover, fill in the title. ## What I did I handed YouTube, Threads and Instagram to AI through connections called connectors. I open Claude and talk. After a recording, the edit comes out, the transcript comes out, the posts come out. I say "let's publish this at 9 pm," and it's done. I also connected the studio lights, camera positions and sound to an AI I talk to by voice. It tells me things like "there isn't enough headroom, move back one meter." ## 1888 and the darkroom In 1888, taking a photo was a chemistry job. You needed glass plates, chemicals, a darkroom and a chemist who could handle all of it. Anyone could stand in front of a camera, but almost nobody could get behind one. Then George Eastman released a box: the Kodak. You paid 25 dollars and got film for 100 photos. You shot them, sent the camera back to Kodak, and the prints came back developed. The slogan was simple: "You press the button, we do the rest." Eastman didn't eliminate the darkroom. He made the darkroom someone else's job. That day photography left the hands of chemists and became everyone's. ## Today's darkroom is in the browser Think of a salesperson. A CRM screen, a calendar screen, notes, and an Excel file that holds it all together. That's a darkroom, and we moved it into the browser. It has a cost. In a study published in Harvard Business Review in 2022, 137 people working at large companies were observed. They switched applications about 1,200 times a day. The time spent asking "where was I?" after switching added up to around 4 hours a week, roughly 5 weeks a year. According to Salesforce research, salespeople use about 10 different tools on average and spend only 28% of their week actually selling. The rest goes to entering things in the calendar, taking notes, scheduling meetings, typing into Excel and the CRM. ## The interface tax The software we buy for work charges us twice. First, the per-user fee. Second, the interface: go to that program, come here, copy this, paste that. Vladyslav Podoliako calls this the interface tax. It's the cost of everything between what you want and the result. It's invisible, it demands training and getting used to, and it's actually the biggest line item. ## Is software dying? I don't think so. Early this year software stocks crashed. Everyone said "SaaS is dead," they even gave it a name: the SaaSpocalypse. But it didn't last long, and by mid-year the stocks were recovering. Software isn't dying. The interface is. The data stays, the rules stay. What disappears are the tabs, screens, settings and pages you open in between. In the software of the future we'll have two screens: one where we say what we want, and one where we see the result. Everything in between is like the problem Kodak solved. Kodak didn't remove the darkroom, it moved it somewhere else. Right now that darkroom is moving to AI. ## To be honest I know software, so I can build and use these connectors myself. But in the not-so-distant future this will be easy for everyone. Before Kodak, photography was only for chemists too. Think about this: how many screens do you open to get one task done today? How many times do you click or fill something in between what you want and the result? Write them down on paper, and what you see is the invisible price you pay. Screens and interfaces shrink every day. 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Wrong question. (yapay-zeka-isimizi-alacak-mi-yanlis-soru): The question is no longer "will AI take our jobs." The question is: what will we do together with AI? — https://furkanmind.com/en/mind/will-ai-take-our-jobs-wrong-question - → related → Yeni mesleğimiz çobanlık mı? (yeni-meslegimiz-cobanlik-mi): Kendi başına iş yapan bir yapay zekâ kurmak herkes için kolaylaşıyor; kıt olan şey yapay zekâ değil, o sürüyü güdecek ve sorumluluğunu alacak insan olacak. — https://furkanmind.com/en/mind/yeni-meslegimiz-cobanlik-mi - → extends → SaaS isn't dying, it's changing shape (saas-olmuyor-dogasi-degisiyor): People don't pay to buy software, they pay for the promise that it will still be supported tomorrow. As copying gets easier, SaaS doesn't end, it changes shape. — https://furkanmind.com/en/mind/saas-isnt-dying