OpenAI’s agent leads say user interfaces aren’t going anywhere

Ari Weinstein and James Sun argue that people still want to click, tap, and steer, even as computer-using agents get faster and more reliable OpenAI is building AI agents that can operate software on their own. Two of the people leading that work say the screens we click on today will stick around anyway. Ari Weinstein and James Sun made that argument on a recent episode of The a16z Show, released on October 26, 2026. Their reasoning is simple: people like interacting with things directly, and that preference does not vanish because a machine can do the clicking for them.

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