Chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs

14 points by Gabriella439

okke

I would like to see a good example of this. Free text is amazing because it allows the users to express what they need, instead of whatever the creator of the interface thought they would require.

steveklabnik

Check out https://lobste.rs/s/7eokzy/stop_using_natural_language_interfaces
ocramz

also, structured output sounds great in theory until you realize that all LLM output needs to be parsed, and parsers co-maintained with prompts etc.
- Gabriella439
  
  You might want to check out the Grace language I authored which addresses exactly this problem (the same one referenced in the post)
azhenley

Three years ago I wrote “Natural language is the lazy user interface”

https://austinhenley.com/blog/naturallanguageui.html
bedrovelsen

Websim.com is a great example of the articles title. Instead of chat UX, what if the UX was the internet