When you're Seeing Like a Frontier Lab, Chatbot is the most obvious and natural product category.

· Bits and Bobs 7/27/26
  • When you're Seeing Like a Frontier Lab, Chatbot is the most obvious and natural product category.
    • There is no fundamental UI other than text[d].
      • All UI is just a secondary, supporting role.
    • There's only the inherent loss function on the text eval that everything else runs on.
    • The more UX you add as fundamental output of the system, not just scaffolding, the more the researchers would say "Wait, how do you optimize it? What is the loss function?"
    • To AI researchers, who are top of the totem pole, if it can't be framed as a loss function, it either is unknowable or unimportant.
    • The Chat model eats itself; it's the purest manifestation of the model.