But does it need a UI?

This has been on my mind a lot lately: whether or not a given piece of software needs a UI. It's a presumed default nowadays, but I'm finding a lot of situations where I'm saying "I don't need a UI for that." Today, I was wiring up the last few pieces of the blog for Fortivibe . My default instinct was to build an admin UI (I let Claude slap together a bivouac for testing last week), but then I…