Thoughts, Ruminations, & Pontifications

The electrician pulls into your driveway.

How much of “AI will automate this away” is about work that is held back by poor UX, malicious regulatory interpretation, or intentional obstacles to dissuade leveraging of that work?

The advent of AI chat bots has positioned ‘chat’ front-and-centre as the future of UX - the nexus of all conversations, all interactions.

The rise of the “chat box” implies that the CLI was the only true interface, with GUIs being a 40 year detour till we found our way back to… describing what we want rather than just doing it.

Optimisation of the funnel & retention requires engineering investment.

IMHO the need to call customer service is often, in reality, a failing of UX — a bug, or an explicit decision to employ a dark pattern.

Your perspective changes with age because you see less opportunity in front of you.

What I find impactful and valuable professionally has changed over the years — much to my surprise.

Summarisation & Generation being headline features of LLMs -- features that draw people in & excite them is a manifestation of an "can't be bothered" attitude that has become pervasive.

Tech projects a mythos that it exists to solve customer problems.

3D Printers span from ‘make a blob’ through to ‘print a rocket engine nozzle out of exotic metals’.

It’s not really about the art.

With so many tokens that came before the current token, and so many possibilities that come after, it’s the job of the harness, the system prompts, the post-training, et al in concert with the human to weave that into something useful.

There is a vision of the future of computer interaction.

It’s often assumed that in the world of people managers people move up the org chart.