OpenUI

The End of the Static Screen: Architecting Intent-Driven UX — Gus Iwanaga, commercetools

Sep 1, 2026 · 23:19

Gus Iwanaga, product engineer at commercetools, explains why static UIs are giving way to agentic interfaces that assemble themselves at runtime. He walks through how an LLM orchestrator can take a user's natural-language goal, query structured product data, and compose the right components on the fly — a pattern his team now uses instead of hand-coding every screen. The talk lays out the new stack this requires: schema-driven design systems that keep AI output consistent, guardrails and human review to hold quality in place, and intent classified by model rather than clicks. Iwanaga argues that teams who keep designing fixed screens will fall behind, because the future of enterprise software is interfaces generated at request time, adapted to each user and each question they ask.

Judging LLMs: Alex Volkov

Sep 9, 2024 · 18:39

Alex Volkov, as an LLM judge from 2034, humorously judges AI engineers on their development practices, emphasizing the importance of tracing, iterative prompt engineering, and robust evaluation pipelines. He finds Daniel guilty of deploying without logging, Sasha guilty of premature fine-tuning without prompt iteration, and Morgan guilty of ignoring AI news—commuted to attending ThursdAI. Francisco’s overreliance on programmatic evals leads to a legal loss, while Maxime is 'awesome' for using Weights & Biases Weave. Alex concludes with a primer on evaluation methods: programmatic, human-in-the-loop, and LLM-as-judge, stressing the need to validate validators and create custom criteria. He promotes Weave for tracing and evals, and ThursdAI for staying updated.