这个比喻把 AI Agent 的本质讲透了——做产品、设计界面或研究人机交互的人，看完会对软件的未来形态有全新理解，值得点开细品。
Ryo Lu 提出一个比喻：Agent 就像 3D 打印机，Token 是虚拟世界的 PLA 材料，通用但打印结果各异。他认为 AI 正在打破传统软件的“房间”式界面，让软件从固定功能的容器变成可塑、可组合、可追问的材料。用户不再需要在不同应用间切换，而是通过表达意图来塑造工具，界面从菜单变成黏土。这一转变让软件成为任何人都能塑造的媒介，而不仅仅是程序员的专利。
Agent 就是 3D 打印机，Token 就是虚拟世界 3D 打印机的 PLA 材料 它是通用的，但最后打印出来的东西都不一样。
Agent 就是 3D 打印机，Token 就是虚拟世界 3D 打印机的 PLA 材料 它是通用的，但最后打印出来的东西都不一样。 Ryo Lu @ryolu_ from apps to material software used to be something you opened an app was a room with walls: calendar here, notes there, music there, work there. each one had its own logic, buttons, its own little kingdom. the user moved between kingdoms, carrying context in their head but ai starts to break the walls software becomes less like a destination and more like material. something you shape, combine, stretch, ask, remix, and leave behind as traces. a document can become an app. a conversation can become a workflow. a song can become a memory. a task can become an agent. the boundary between using and making gets blurry the old model was: choose the right tool for each task the new model is: express the shape of the thing you want, then refine it with the system you built this changes the role of the interface. ui is no longer only fixed views for fixed functions. it becomes a surface where intent turns into structure. the best interfaces will feel less like menus and more like clay – responsive, persistent, inspectable, and alive apps won’t disappear. rooms are still useful. but the deeper shift is that software stops being a set of sealed containers and becomes a medium people can think through like paper, but executable like language, but spatial like memory, but programmable software stops being something only programmers make it becomes material anyone can shape 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 5 🔄 0 ❤️ 5 👀 1693 📊 4 ⚡