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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Chatbots are a terribleinterface for largelanguage models, because a… AW Amelia Wattenberger — holds since 2023-05-01 Connecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do. Connecting aconversational LLM to… AR Armin Ronacher — holds since 2023-02-17 AR Armin Ronacher — turned since 2025-06-04 A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do. A blank chat box islazy: it violates the… JZ Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 Today's chat-based AI tools have deep-rooted usability problems and are not the interfaces we will be using in a few years; prompt engineering is a symptom, not a career. Today's chat-based AItools have deep-rooted… JN Jakob Nielsen — holds since 2023-06-22 Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop. Chatbot interfaces arethe wrong tool for… MH Mitchell Hashimoto — holds since 2026-02-05 ChatGPT exploded because of its obvious chat interface, not its technology, which had launched earlier in a different wrapper that few noticed. ChatGPT explodedbecause of its obvious… JZ Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 Conversational interfaces get to the first seventy percent quickly and are bad at iteration; the future is chat married to traditional direct-manipulation controls. Conversationalinterfaces get to the… JZ Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-05-12 Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementing and evaluating; a chatbot forces the switch every few seconds and kills flow. Good tools let the userchoose when to switch… AW Amelia Wattenberger — holds since 2023-05-01 Good tools make it clear how they should be used and how they should not; a chat box looks the same as a search box, a login form and a credit card field. Good tools make itclear how they should… AW Amelia Wattenberger — holds since 2023-05-01
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