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We have the opportunity to rethink user interfaces based on hierarchy or scrolling. A LLM can compute, given a focal point, what other items might be interesting. For example, a code browser/editor could show callers, tests, helpers, & similar code.

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One of the things I really loved in Windows 8 was the “semantic zoom” concept that zoomed by hierarchies other than magnification but it didn’t really take off because of the work required to build the hierarchy for each app/info type. Be nice to see it re-emerge like this

That’s a great point! I’m curious what an LLM like Claude would come up with for something like “I want to review this. What would be a good order for these files to make the review easier?” Even beyond that, you could display relevant blocks next to each other, intelligently expand certain parts…

That reminds me of that highly conceptual text editor from a few years ago. Maybe Light Table? I remember a demo that was kind of deconstructing files into their parts and visualizing them accordingly.