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Conversational interfaces get to the first seventy percent quickly and are bad at iteration; the future is chat married to traditional direct-manipulation controls.

Drawn from what Julie Zhuo said

Subjectchat interfaces

chat interfaces The text box as the way into a model: whether chat is the future of software or a terrible interface, and what replaces it.

On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: Chat is a terrible interface: a blank box has no affordances and leaves the work to the user

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What Julie Zhuo actually said

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  1. Julie Zhuo

    Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product…

    Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.

    Where this was said

    ↗Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunitylg.substack.com

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