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.
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Ethan Mollick quoted
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI
Our readingAI is improving exponentially but unevenly.
Their wordsAI is improving exponentially but unevenly, and the way we use it is shifting from chatbots to agents that do real work.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsAI has plenty of issues, but it also creates plenty of benefits for regular Americans: 1. Huge consumer surplus (people love using chatbots) 2. Lots of construction jobs 3. Property tax revenue 4. Supporting the whole macroeconomy
- 2 weeks earlier
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Cory Doctorow quoted
Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist
Their wordswhen we interact with an AI, we hallucinate the person on the other side of the interaction.
↗Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Cory Doctorow quoted
Their wordsChatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.
↗Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 5 days earlier
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Our readingAdding advertising into AI chatbot products carries a high risk of backfiring with users.
Their wordsInjecting ads into the current paradigm with AI chatbots runs a pretty high risk of backfiring.
- 1 day earlier
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Michael Lopp quoted
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape
Their wordsI do know that the robot's primary job in responding is to make sure you get a satisfying answer. I didn't say correct; I said satisfying.
↗Robots Have No Voicerandsinrepose.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsthe earliest chatbot that was really actually fantastic wasn't chat GPT but actually Sydney which was powered by Bing
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 3rd of 26 in this recording
- 5 days earlier
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Mike Krieger quoted
Works in Anthropic Labs; co-founder of Instagram
Their wordsI think the next stage that I've been thinking about a lot is when the interfaces actually become something that is malleable by the agent too.
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 11th of 19 in this recording
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsNormies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video" They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingMost of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for ordinary users.
Their wordsMost of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for normies
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsThe AI chat apps will slowly eat up most services and provide them to users directly, many times without even an app or interface, just do whatever the user wants
- 10 days earlier
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Joe Liemandt quoted
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School
Their wordsIf you take a chatbot and put it into a standard school, 90% of the kids use it to cheat. Doesn't matter what grade level you're at.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording
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Joe Liemandt quoted
Their wordsThe most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording
- 6 days earlier
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John Bai quoted
Designer at SpaceXAI in New York working on Grok Bot
Their wordsThere's a lot of discourse online these days about like we need to move away from the the chat interface and you know even if I complain about the three column approach to it. I think as I was using it it became clear this is still the right way for us to interact with a fleet of what are essentially agents carrying out tasks that are defined to them ahead of time.
↗John Bai - The Grok Bot design journeyyoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording
- 6 days earlier
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Our readingAll user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.
Their wordsEventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Boris Cherny quoted
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic
Their wordsI think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a hard task that seems a little bit too hard. And then how do you make it possible for Claude to verify its work along the way? And the verification I think is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right
↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording
- 8 weeks earlier
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Steven Johnson quoted
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host
Their wordsTo a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
↗Cognitive Uploadingadjacentpossible.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Chip Huyen quoted
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems
Their wordsBut in Vietnam and also in a lot of other Asian countries, people are on the move all the time. Like people are on the motorbike all the time. So, they actually really don't like typing. So, the voice like a lot of the companies in Vietnam actually deploy voice bots before they do uh do chatbot.
↗Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 8th of 14 in this recording
- 4 days earlier
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Mark Nottingham quoted
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor
Their wordsgrounding a chatbot in a specific set of documents allows you to interact with them in a genuinely new way.
- 5 days earlier
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Arvid Kahl quoted
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold…
Their wordsIf you have a customer chatbot and it causes damage, it's not the chatbot company that's responsible. It's you.
↗AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Kris Puckett quoted
Design manager at Stripe
Their wordschat surfaces are only going to be more and more prominent.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
- 8 days earlier
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Harper Reed quoted
Technologist and entrepreneur
Their wordsYour interface should feel more like Claude than a traditional file browser or note-taking app.
↗My now immaculate knowledge graph of lifeharper.blog 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Steve Yegge quoted
Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
Their wordsI think that by the end of this year and we'll see demos of it like right away, but by the end of this year most people will be programming by talking to a face. A face as in a face on the screen.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 10th of 25 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Dario Amodei quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic
Their wordsThe the chatbot is already running into limitations of, you know, making it smarter doesn't really help the average consumer that much. But I don't think that's a limitation of AI models. I don't think that's evidence that, you know, the models are are the models are good enough and they're they're, you know, them getting better doesn't matter to the economy.
↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 22nd of 29 in this recording
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsLike, if you think more globally, we are, we copied Google for agents. You have, like, a prompt, and, and then you have a chat interface. That, to me, very much feels like when we first created television and then people recorded radio shows on television and you saw that on TV.
↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 16th of 30 in this recording
- 7 days earlier
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Mitchell Hashimoto quoted
Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical
Their wordsImmediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
- 5 months earlier
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Sergey Levine quoted
Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley
Their wordsLike if you answer a question, you just like answered it wrong. It's like well it's not like you can just like go back and like tweak a few things like the person you told the answer to might not even know that it's wrong. Whereas if you're like folding the t-shirt and you messed up a little bit like it's pretty obvious like you can reflect on that, figure out what happened and do it better next time.
↗Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levineyoutube.com 2nd of 24 in this recording
- 10 days earlier
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Benedict Evans quoted
Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers
Their wordsLike it seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Grock Claude Gemini um Mistral Deep Seek. Do a double blind test. I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which.
↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 11th of 16 in this recording
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Benedict Evans quoted
Their wordsIt's like something around 10% give or take three or four percent of people depending on the survey are using this say they're using this every day. Another sort of 15 to 20% of people say they're using it every week.
↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 13th of 16 in this recording
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Luke Wroblewski quoted
Product designer and entrepreneur
Their wordsIt's also worth noting that chat isn't the only way to integrate AI in software products and increasingly agent-based applications outperform chat-only solutions. So expect things to keep changing.