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by padolsey·1y ago·view on hn ↗
> communicating complex ideas in conversation is hard and lossy

True but..

> instead of building the website, the model would generate an interface for you to build it, where every user input to that interface queries the large model under the hood

This to me seems wildly _more_ lossy though, because it is by its nature immediately constraining. Whereas conversation at least has the possibility of expansiveness and lateral step-taking. I feel like mediating via an interface might become too narrow too quickly maybe?

For me, conversation, although linear and lossy, melds well with how our brain works. I just wish the conversational UXs we had access to were less rubbish, less linear. E.g. I'd love Claude or any of the major AI chat interfaces to have a 'forking' capability so I can go back to a certain point in time in the chat and fork off a new rabbit hole of context.

> nobody would want an email app that occasionally sends emails to your ex and lies about your inbox. But gradually the models will get better.

I think this is a huge impasse tho. And we can never make models 'better' in this regard. What needs to get 'better' - somehow - is how to mediate between models and their levers into the computer (what they have permission to do). It's a bad idea to even have a highly 'aligned' LLM send emails on our behalf without having us in the loop. The surface area for problems is just too great.

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Yea forked conversations UX is definitely one of my most desired features.
>I'd love Claude or any of the major AI chat interfaces to have a 'forking' capability so I can go back to a certain point in time in the chat and fork off a new rabbit hole of context.

ChatGPT has this feature: forking occurs by editing an old message. It will retain the entire history, which can still be navigated and interacted with. The UX isn’t perfect, but it gets the job done.