Headless everything for personal AI

This "headless" term is pure marketing and I sure hope it blows by, but the concept I agree with completely. Matter of fact I’m already playing here with my mb project. I've been working on a lot of agent building and thinking about how agentic systems compare with typical product building that has been the focus of most things I've done for my career.

Products are designed for people and our huge context windows, visual preferences, and a desire to enable the user to do whatever they want at any time with buttons and events.

Agents have a limited context window, much prefer text interfaces that are easy to parse, and thrive on non-blocking command line calls.

There is overlap between these but less than you might think. Part of the reason that building agentic systems is moving so quickly is removing some extremely expensive and time consuming things that products need. You need a concept, some visual system. You need user testing. You need to consider a whole event model. With agents you don't need any of that.

And on top of that, you can just ask the agent how it is working. You can ask another LLM to generate interactive test data. You can move so much faster.