An assistant that gives you a handful of options to choose from is useful.

· Bits and Bobs 7/29/24

For example, one of the big benefits of a wedding planner is not that you offload judgment decisions to them, but that you know they'll come back with a handful of reasonable (in terms of quality and cost) options to pick from.

This kind of assistant is very forgiving; they don't take actions on your behalf.

The human judgment is in the loop, always.

But the boring / hard part is automated away.

Google Search is fundamentally framed as "here are 10 options, you pick the one you want"

Very forgiving UX modality, with a clean hill to climb of quality.

4-up UI is great for coevolving an answer with an imperfect assistant. Dancing with the LLM.

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