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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 00:35:54 JST tante

   The thing is: ChatBots are just a really bad interface for a lot of tasks that they're supposedly the future of.

   "AI"==chatbot mostly comes from the fact that this is very easy to build. Especially if - as it is with most modern AI tools - you don't actually know what the real use case is as a developer.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 00:35:52 JST tante

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     It is kinda funny. Terminal applications are always seen as too clunky and unwieldy for average non-nerds to use but that's exactly what chatbots are: Command line apps with unspecified parameters and outcomes.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 00:35:53 JST tante

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     Good interfaces derive their structure from the task the user is trying to solve and the expected knowledge and domain model that user has. This is not how most "AI" solutions' interfaces are built.

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.
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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 01:12:53 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

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     • Matthew Lyon

     @tante @mattly will agree