Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm.
Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm.[b] That's becoming more and more clear as we use agents more than chatbots.
Topic: paradigm
147 mentions · 9 chunks · 9 episodes
24.7× distinctiveness vs baseline
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3.3x burst in 2025 Q2
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- paradigm appears in 9 chunks across 9 episodes, from 2024-05-06 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/6/24 (2024-05-06), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with chatbot, late stage, and black box, while by chunk count it sits between prompt and ai generated; its yearly rank moved from #141 in 2024 to #133 in 2026.
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In the late stage of a paradigm all that's left as a differentiator is brand.
In the late stage of a paradigm all that's left as a differentiator is brand. Cloud software has been at the end of a paradigm. An example: seed stage software would spend 20% of th...
Single ply thinking as quickly as possible is a characteristic of late-stage scenarios within a paradigm.
...ing as quickly as possible is a characteristic of late-stage scenarios within a paradigm. In today's late-stage-of-whatever-paradigm-this-is tech culture, employees are rewarded primarily for doing whatever their manager told them to do, ...
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king.
...all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king. I believe chat is a feature, not a paradigm. We just haven't found the GUI for AI yet.
AI is to Apple as the internet was to Microsoft.
...net on Windows PCs, but it was the Internet that created the conditions for the paradigm that would surpass the PC, which was mobile"
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot.
...PT 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 or 2) can be a Chatbot from any model (as well as any other UI)?
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 after thinking for literally 30 s...
Some paradigms of tech encourage tinkering, DIY, "try it and find out!".
Some paradigms of tech encourage tinkering, DIY, "try it and find out!". Some paradigms of tech encourage "don't mess with it": black boxes. All else equal I stron...
The late stage of a paradigm is extremely boring.
The late stage of a paradigm is extremely boring. All of the requisite variety in the system has been slurped up into the small number of hyper gravity wells. There's little move...