chatbots

“But the important difference in our minds is with notebooks you can define a process. So in, in data science you can go like, here's like my data analysis process that takes in a CSV and then does some Extraction, and then generates a figure at the end, and yo…”

“Interacting with a chatbot is sort of novel at first, but it's not interesting. Right. And it's like humans are what makes interacting with chatbots interesting. It's like, ha ha ha, I'm going to try to trick it. It's like, that's interesting. Spell strawberry…”

“If we want to do something even more meaningful, it felt like the next kind of advancement is not this kind of, I'm chatting with some software in a kind of a synchronous back and forth model is that software is going to do things for me. In kind of multi-step…”

“So we're used to the chat bot back and forth. Fine. I get that. I think we're gonna move to a blend of some of those things are gonna be synchronous as they are now, but some are gonna be async. It's just gonna put it in a queue”

“Nobody wants to use a chatbot on your website. I don't want to use chatbots on people's websites. Like if things pop up on a website when I go to visit it, I just like, I fly into a visceral rage. I'm definitely closing the window if not closing the tab.”

“We're kind of trapped in this local attractor state of chatbots and coding agents and like turn taking in batches. And this is absolutely not how humans interact with each other.”

“I imagine that. In a matter of months, we will look back at today and we won't even be able to empathize with the mental models that we have right now because they are so over-indexed on chatbots and coding agents.”