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Agent UX needs new surfaces, not better chat

LukeW argues chat threads break down once you're coordinating multiple agents and proposes specialized views instead, while Felix Rieseberg's Cowork moves inference to the cloud so agent work persists across devices, and AI for UX's roundup flags perceived latency as a design-owned problem. If agents are becoming infrastructure rather than a single chat window, the open question is whether your job is to design their output or the control surface around them.

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Agent interfaces need many views, not one dashboard

Treating agent coordination as a viewport problem rather than a chat problem gives you a concrete design brief: build the diagrams and side-by-side comparisons that let people supervise without reading logs.

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Sketch one alternative view (a diagram, a diff, a timeline) for a workflow you currently expose only as a chat log, and compare how much faster you'd spot a wrong decision.

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