Chat should be a sidecar to your more permanent data, not the main thing.

· Bits and Bobs 10/6/25
  • Chat should be a sidecar to your more permanent data, not the main thing.
    • Chats are ephemeral, but contain lots of facts, insights, and implications that could be useful in the future.
      • A compost heap of information with insights lurking.
    • Extracting those insights takes work… and it's easy for the system to get it wrong.
    • ChatGPT does this with its dossier, which it's continually expanding, tweaking, based on your most recent chats.
      • But it doesn't share that dossier with you.
    • The facts and insights are more important than the chat.
    • A few years after a conversation, the chat doesn't matter, the more permanent insights that can be extracted and structured do.
    • Which is primary and which is secondary, the chats or the facts?
    • Today the chatbot form factor assumes the former.
    • But I think it's the latter.

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