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The idea of UI generated on the fly instead of pre-built reached production in 2025. After a year of real-world use, the balance is more nuanced than the initial enthusiasm suggested.
Sixteen months after Anthropic first shipped computer use, with browser-use, OpenAI Operator and Gemini Computer Use all pushing in parallel, agents that drive the browser and desktop have moved from demo to real workflows. Time to review which patterns survive when you run them daily in production.
After two years watching every product invent its own interface for talking to an agent, by January 2026 a stable design consensus is emerging about which patterns work, which do not, and what the average user already expects. Time to write down what has settled.
Casi nueve meses después del lanzamiento de Computer Use, algunos equipos lo han llevado a producción para tareas reales. Dónde funciona, dónde todavía no conviene, y qué patrones están emergiendo para que un agente que maneja ratón y teclado no acabe siendo más problema que solución.
A year after chat stopped being the only acceptable way to talk to an agent, UI patterns built specifically for agent tasks are emerging. I go through the ones starting to stick and the ones that are just cycle fashion.
