If the Chatbot is the product then it must have a personality as part of its UX.
If the Chatbot is the product then it must have a personality as part of its UX. This can get into oddities, like your confidant being a product made by a multi-nat...
Topic: chatbot
102 mentions · 18 chunks · 13 episodes
20.2× distinctiveness vs baseline
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- chatbot appears in 18 chunks across 13 episodes, from 2024-11-11 to 2026-03-23.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 11/10/25 (2025-11-10), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, party trick, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between red queen race and tiktok; its yearly rank moved from #159 in 2024 to #71 in 2026.
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In the Chatbot form factor the chat is a party trick.
In the Chatbot form factor the chat is a party trick. "Look, it talks just like a person!" In Claude Code, chat is merely a natural-language way to accomplish the e...
LLMs are a commodity, and if you act like that, a lot of things become more clear.
...ase, but it's obviously true. If you think about LLMs as monolithic, omniscient Chatbots, then LLMs don't feel commodity. But if you think of LLMs as just boring inputs to other processes that matter, you don't care as much about them. I...
The New York Times points out that it's weird that Chatbots use "I".
The[ez] New York Times points out that it's weird that Chatbots use "I".
Google's A2UI is a Chatbot putting on a puppet show.
Google's A2UI is a Chatbot putting on a puppet show. The software itself doesn't feel alive.
People assume the main AI software category will be chatbots.
People assume the main AI software category will be chatbots. I think it's a category no one has invented yet that will make Chatbots look like an embarrassing party trick.
Seeing LLMs as "mainly chatbots" limits you from seeing their potential.
Seeing LLMs as "mainly chatbots" limits you from seeing their potential. When you see LLM as being like electricity you can plug into any software to make it alive, it's game chang...
I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots.
I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots. Someone told me they found my position inscrutable because I loved LLMs but hate chatbots. But they're different things! LLMs are not Chatbots. Cha...
The current AI consensus has a bit of an underpants gnomes vibe to me.
The current AI consensus has a bit of an underpants gnomes vibe to me. Step 1: Chatbots. Step 2: ??? Step 3: ASI It's not clear how the one leads to the last. Also, I'm not pumped about either as being an inherently good thing for socie...
I find the Chatbot wars just kind of sad.
I find the Chatbot wars just kind of sad. It's the same hyper-centralization and engagement-maximizing playbook from social media, just supercharged. We're taking the m...
This tweet points out that we shouldn't design robots that look like humans.
...ms, eye/cams on stalks, whatev. Proving it's not human shouldn't be necessary." Chatbots are non-physical robots. Humans anthropomorphize anything that looks even a little bit like a human. That means that we should actively design non-h...
The Atlantic points out that ChatGPT is a fictional character.
...t emerged. A very different dynamic. Yet another way that the implicit frame of Chatbots as "LLMs as friends" is unsettling and potentially dangerous.
Is the LLM model a Christmas tree decorated with doo dads?
Is the LLM model a Christmas tree decorated with doo dads? That is, like a Chatbot? A vertical experience. Or is it like electricity that can be infused into everything? A horizontal technology?
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot.
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot. Is chat really all there is? Chat is a feature, not a paradigm. Which would you choose between 1) a product that's only a Chatbot tied to one model ...
We already pay a "subscription" to the internet.
...o LLMs, why not pick the option that is the open ecosystem, that includes other Chatbots as apps?[ky]
Five years from now people will look back and say "remember when we thought Chatbots were the main thing?"
Five years from now people will look back and say "remember when we thought Chatbots were the main thing?"
Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm.
Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm. As an industry we're so distracted by Chatbots. Chatbots are the most obvious use of LLMs, what you'd come up with afte...
The assumption that Chatbots are the killer app for LLMs presupposes a centralized, necessarily one-size-fits-none system.
The assumption that Chatbots are the killer app for LLMs presupposes a centralized, necessarily one-size-fits-none system. When you centralize, you have to have a one-size-fits-...