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In the age of language models, the medium is the message — is the machine.

we could see brands and industries targeting older consumers as if they were still young .

Where are the templates for key use cases? Where are “trending prompts” and highlighted examples so users can learn from the community? Where are suggestions to continue past conversations?

Nothing wonderful comes out fully formed. A good creator’s journey is one through the dark ravines and jungles of refinement. Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.

This is not only true at the model level but the individual level. Soon there will be such a thing as unhealthy and healthy prompting, a kind of psychological score for queries.

If I want to play with different titles for my game, for example, the obvious thing I’d want to do is select the title and start typing out my various ideas, or click on the raccoon character and swap out the image with different ones.

Typing instructions to my agent “Can you change the title from X to Y?” or “Can you change the raccoon to be cuter... See more

If AI services can understand the user’s intent, it becomes even more obvious what the ideal input and output modes should be.

Gartner famously noted when it comes to data that “80% of the value is in asking the right questions.”