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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Today's chat-based AI toolshave deep-rooted usabilityproblems and are not the… 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 Half the population in rich countries is not articulate enough in writing to use prompt-driven AI well. Half the population inrich countries is not… JN Jakob Nielsen — holds since 2023-06-26 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 Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances. Chatbots are a terribleinterface for large… 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 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
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