Here’s something I’ve been thinking about. As AI builds more and more of our software, and as people with no design or coding background start shipping apps, I think everything is slowly going to look and feel identical. Not because of some conspiracy, just as a natural side effect of everyone using the same AI tools trained on the same design patterns. We can already see it. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity: sidebar, chat window, text box at the bottom. Every single one. That happened in less than two years, nobody decided it, and nobody complained. The thing is, when AI is doing the building, there’s no designer in the room fighting for a distinct identity. It just does what works. And “what works” is the same answer every time. The next generation growing up with this probably won’t even notice or care. Think about it: nobody has opinions about what their power outlet looks like. Software might just become infrastructure. You use it, it works, you move on. And honestly? There’s a real upside here. If every app on your phone, desktop, anywhere follows the same basic logic, you never have to “learn” new software again. That’s actually huge. I call this the Interface Monoculture. Like in farming: one dominant crop, everywhere, because it’s the most efficient. It works great, until it doesn’t. The only apps that’ll probably escape this are games, luxury stuff, anything where the experience is the product. Everything else? Same thing, different logo. What do you think? Is there something that would actually stop this from happening? submitted by /u/informity
Originally posted by u/informity on r/ArtificialInteligence