Post AzMgTiu4a3EN1J0QBU by tshirtman@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #AzMcoVaUsqK5zEVNPE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-10-19T10:19:26Z
       
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       What's missing? The UI is missing.Look back at the iPhone, the iPhone didn't invent anything new. The innovation was an excellent UI that brought existing technologies together (cellphone, internet, camera) to the extent that Apple continues to be important it's due to their "better than the alternative" UI. (this has become questionable)Part of why ChatGPT is popular is it's easy to use. I wouldn't call the UI "excellent" but it's not bad. 1/
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMdIAZhZbO9VJHCz2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-10-19T10:24:47Z
       
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       So much of the press is focused on chips, models, technical benchmarks and not enough is focused on the quality of the user interface. I think UI gets ignored since one of the most popular strategies to make your software company more profitable is to degrade the user experience by making it worse. To suggest centering UI is practically alien. 2/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMfCmsQSDz4Syb09w by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
       2025-10-19T10:46:11Z
       
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       @futurebird The thing is, truly flexible multilingual natural language input *is* a great use case for large language models. It's just that that's ideally the boundary, where it converts to well-defined structured input for a testable, repeatable API of the program that does the thing. Then *maybe* they can do text generation back from the structured, well-defined output of the program.The dumb idea is making the middle bit out of floppy ,unrepeatable, untestable token generation too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMgTiu4a3EN1J0QBU by tshirtman@mas.to
       2025-10-19T11:00:27Z
       
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       @futurebird I absolutely agree, as a dev i use AI coding tools at work to help build features faster, we are encouraged by the company and vetted products are available, mainly claude, codex, amp, and aside their relative performance at producing usable code, the UX differences are the first things we tend to remark upon, and while these are all tui tools at the moment, which i like, i feel this is creating barriers to understanding their output and guide them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMguu4d9psDTzu94q by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
       2025-10-19T11:02:05Z
       
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       @tiotasram @futurebird For sure. It's an accessibility accommodation, it's by no means the best way to interact with most things you might want to do with a computer. Also you don't need huge centralised models controlled by world-eating oligarchs to do simple and useful things,  or want the gross homogenisation that way of doing it leads to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMguvXNiQSw1SMcWu by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-10-19T11:05:23Z
       
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       @petealexharris @tiotasram I think we forget that the real way people use tech is often very simple. Doing a simple task well, making it easy is the bigger revolution. If we call LLMs "the new spellcheck and translating software" that doesn't sound big enough for all the investments ... but. Having really good functional software that can do these things and be seamless is worthwhile and one could even make a little money implementing it. But noooooo no the computer must be the new God.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMhNwlQEbdCDxljg8 by llewelly@sauropods.win
       2025-10-19T11:10:38Z
       
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       @futurebird chatGPT is to LLMs what kitchen hotpads  were  to asbestos.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzMj1krM0ur8qD5bFY by stagerabbit@famichiki.jp
       2025-10-19T11:28:59Z
       
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       @futurebird It has to be god to justify the insane amount of resources being burned for it, like so many sacrificial lambs .@petealexharris @tiotasram