Chatbots with thinking mode are a weird UX.
Chatbots with thinking mode are a weird UX. It presents like a human in a synchronous conversation but then it might not respond for a few minutes. Feels les...
Topic: chatbot
116 mentions · 66 chunks · 42 episodes
21.6× distinctiveness vs baseline
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1.8x burst in 2025 Q4
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- chatbot appears in 66 chunks across 42 episodes, from 2024-11-11 to 2026-09-21.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/12/25 (2025-05-12), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with party trick, paradigm, and ChatGPT, while by chunk count it sits between network effect and feedback loop; its yearly rank moved from #148 in 2024 to #16 in 2026.
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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 big companies are all on the chatbot train.
The big companies are all on the chatbot train. Big companies can't bet on two contradictory things. What if the most powerful use of LLMs that is not chatbots?
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.
AI is just too powerful for you to be the "product."
...he "product." If AI is so powerful, then it has to be in your interests. If the chatbot had to choose: your interests, or its corporate creators', which would it choose? The problem with ads is not "you get stuff for free" it's "the ince...
Chatbots are mainly agent kayfabe.
Chatbots are mainly agent kayfabe. They don't learn or change from loop to loop. The most obvious versions of agents… and the least useful. Real agents have ...
Agentic stuff needs to change the context every time through the loop.
...needs to change the context every time through the loop. Otherwise, it's just a chatbot. The context is things it learned, or things the user told it, or the new tools it created. Each tool it makes for one purpose is a stepping stone to...
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...
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
...ord ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
Chatbots are like filming stage plays.
Chatbots are like filming stage plays. We're still waiting for the "montage" moment for LLMs. My vote for the montage capability is LLMs being able to create...
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.
Claude Imagine is a chatbot in a trenchcoat.
Claude Imagine is a chatbot in a trenchcoat. It's a fascinating experiment. It has a tool to modify the DOM displayed to the user, and gets user interactions on the DOM streamed...
Chatbot is a UI that is great for very few use cases but passable for nearly all of them.
Chatbot is a UI that is great for very few use cases but passable for nearly all of them.
Notion's AI is a chatbot that helps build documents.
Notion's AI is a chatbot that helps build documents. They're not software, they're documents. Software is alive. Documents are dead. The buttons don't execute anything when y...