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by Byamarro 225 days ago
A hybrid will likely emerge. I work on a chat application and it's pretty normal that LLM can print custom ui as part of the chat. Things like sliders, dials, selects, calendars are just better as a GUI in certain situations.

I've once saw a demo of an AI photo editing app that displays sliders next to light sources on a photo and you are able to dim/brighten the individual light sources intensity this way. This feels to me like a next level of the user interface.
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Terr_ 225 days ago
IMO the best fusion for this kind of thing is:

1. There's a "normal" interface or query-language for searching.

2. The LLM suggests a query, based on what you said you wanted in English, possibly in conjunction with results of a prior submit.

3. The true query is not hidden from the user, but is made available so that humans can notice errors, fix deficiencies, and naturally--if they use it enough--learn how it works so that the LLM is no longer required.

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8n4vidtmkvmk 225 days ago
Yessss! This is what I want. If there is a natural set of filters that can be applied, let me speak it in natural language, then the LLM can translate that as good as possible and then I can review it. E.g. searching photos between X and Y date, containing human Z, at location W. These are all filters that can be presented as separate UI elements so I can confirm the LLM interpreted correctly and I can adjust the dates or what have you without having to repeat the whole sentence again.
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Terr_ 224 days ago
Also, any additional LLM magic would be a separate layer with its own context, safely abstracted beneath the filter/search language. Not a post-processing step by some kind of LLM-shell.

For example, "Find me all pictures since Tuesday with pets" might become:

    type:picture after:2025-10-08 fuzzy-content:"with pets"
Then the implementation of "fuzzy-content" would generate a text-description of the photo and some other LLM-thingy does the hidden document-building like:

   Description: "black dog catching a frisbee"
   Does that "with pets"? 
   Answer Yes or No.
   Yes.
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