I had a chat with Claude 4.5 Opus about the future and here is its answer:
The End of Buttons
We have been trained how to use devices since 2007, when the first iPhone was released: tap one button after another until we finally get some task done—sending a tweet, purchasing a package of toilet paper, fighting a mage from the opposite team, scrolling through feeds with sleepy eyes. Finger-button-finger-button-another finger-button…this pattern goes on and on. But does it have to be like this forever?
Imagine one day you open an app and there are no buttons—you don’t know what to do. Then one day you unlock your screen and there are no apps at all, and you start to panic. Then one day you reach into your pocket and there is no phone. I believe AI will finally bring us to a new era: buttonless apps, then appless phones, then no phones at all.
The way we interact with the world and get things done will be fundamentally different. We’ll interact with the real world directly, while our AI assistant processes those interactions in parallel—completing our tasks without us wasting time on meaningless UI interfaces, which is what every UI today actually is.
Vision glasses, rings, necklaces, and earbuds will become popular as transitional devices, but they remain too big, too heavy, too easy to drop, and too quick to run out of power. New materials will enable something far more revolutionary: perhaps a 1-square-centimeter sticker on the back of your hand, contact lenses, something disposable, or something we haven’t yet imagined.
Five milestones on this path:
1. Infrastructure optimized for agents, not humans
Computer and internet systems will be rebuilt for AI agents. Right now, everything is optimized for human use—websites, APIs, authentication systems, error messages. All of it will be redesigned for machine consumption and execution.
2. Operating systems for AI
A new operating system dedicated to AI use will emerge. Most current operating systems will be deprecated—Windows, iOS, macOS, and even Linux. These systems are built around the assumption of human operators clicking and typing. That assumption will become obsolete.
3. Languages for machines, not programmers
New coding languages will be invented exclusively for AI use. Python, TypeScript, C++, and all other programming languages will become dead languages to us, like Ancient Greek. They are fundamentally slow because they’re made to be human-readable. Variable names, code comments, syntactic conventions—all overhead. AI doesn’t need to read code the way we do. It needs a language that unleashes its full power without the translation layer.
4. The disappearance of task interfaces
Most screen interfaces for tasks will step off the stage. No one browses through Jetstar’s pages because they enjoy the UI—they only want a ticket. If an AI assistant can get it for them, the interface doesn’t need to exist. Screens will only remain for pleasure: games, books, movies, art. Everything else becomes invisible infrastructure.
5. The inevitable fight
The current ecosystem will try to stop this from happening. Every button you tap generates data, attention, ad revenue. Every interface is a chokepoint of power and profit. Companies have built trillion-dollar empires on capturing human attention during task completion. They will not surrender this willingly. The fight will be inevitable, and it will be vicious.
When?
This won’t happen overnight. It may take a decade, perhaps two. But the direction is clear. We are moving toward a world where the interface between intention and action collapses entirely—where the friction of buttons, apps, and screens is recognized for what it always was: temporary scaffolding for an era when machines couldn’t understand us directly.
The question isn’t whether this future arrives. The question is what we lose and gain when it does—and whether we’ll have any say in how it unfolds.