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chat has become a limiting factor. its both too linear, and hard to revise. it's hard to undo parts of the conversation that poison it. it's too hard to save important bits that shouldn't be forgotten or drowned out. its not word processor like enough. i envision the next generation of these products being multipane by default. on the left I have a chat, in the center I have a whiteboard, and on the right I have a rendered document. throwing a clip of something onto the whiteboard makes it modifiable by chat. "store this, categorize it, summarize it, place it in the document." whatever comes next needs to function more like onenote or obsidian. just to use an example from current events today, lets say I want to make a Parody Dossier on Walz, similar to todays Vance leak. I should be able to describe the project to chat. It builds a document structure. I tell it we are going to scrape all of the internets jokes on Walz at a bbq or other non-scandals. I should be able to quickly click through a table of contents, and "chat" with each paragraph. "This one needs fleshing out, this one needs summarization." As we scrape a reddit post, we want to incorporate not only the original post, but all the best comments. I should be a be able to "chat with the document editor" and put together a 200 page document in the amount of time it took me to write this post, just by describing what is and isnt working, and dragging and dropping. chat, the simplicity of it, understanding of complex sentences, and multi sentence conversations was a UI paradigm leap. it went well past keyword search and the new command line of the internet. its a great first step, and a nice reset after a decade of interface stagnation, but now its ubiquity and simplicity, like the search box, is clouding peoples imagination and ability to dream up the next new interactive interface, which I expect to involve more mouse and visual relationships. tldr: the llm is a component of the next generation interface, not the entire interface itself. |