rachel

The questions shift from what can scale to what should . This is the great work of our time: not just building what spreads, but what matters. Not just making things people want, but cultivating the desire for what’s worth wanting.

The problem with a blank chat box on a blank page is that it violates the first rule of a high-quality user experience: it isn’t obvious what I can do.

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

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.

Before we slap a conversational interface on everything, let’s ask ourselves: what are we trying to accomplish? And what is the most obvious method of input and output to achieve that goal?

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?