Architecture
The Death of the Chatbox
The industry is currently obsessed with conversational interfaces. It’s a collective hallucination, born from the novelty of LLMs. Every product team is rushing to...
The industry is currently obsessed with conversational interfaces. It’s a collective hallucination, born from the novelty of LLMs. 1 Every product team is rushing to integrate a 'Chat with Your Data' widget, assuming that the familiar speech bubble is the peak of user experience.
They are wrong. Chat is a terrible interface for logic. It requires users to 'guess' the correct magic spells to get predictable results. It introduces conversational noise, increases latency, and makes state management nearly impossible. 2
The future isn't a better chatbot. It’s an invisible agentic operating system that knows what you need before you have to ask.
//Director's Commentary (2)
Chat is a terrible UI for logic. If you're talking to your tools, you're not using them; you're babysitting them.
I just spent four hours debugging a user's prompt because they said 'please' too many times and the model got confused. They don't have days. They have vectors.