I wrote about the pattern that UI revolutions follow: the technology exists long before someone figures out the right interface. Engelbart demos the mouse in 1968, Windows 95 ships in 1995. Palm Pilots and Windows Mobile phones exist for a decade before the iPhone. In both cases there's a transition phase where new tech gets pressed into old metaphors — Norton Commander adding mouse support, Windows Mobile miniaturizing the desktop. I think we're in that transition phase now with agentic AI. Tool use, MCP, voice AI, autonomous agents — the blocks are all there. And what do we do? Type into Electron chat windows. Claude Code is the Midnight Commander of the agentic era: powerful, but not a new paradigm. The article also gets into who might build the "iPhone moment" for agents (Apple has everything except the will), the attention economy inverting, and what happens when your free agent works for advertisers instead of you.