human-centered software

September 23, 2024

Go from building features to building experiences.

Rank experiences and iterate.

We don't need a model of consciousness or to wait for AGI.

We can build something in the intermediate term that gives richer experiences.

Insights are hard to glean from the same raw information.

And insights can't be transmitted directly, they are earned through decomposition and synthesis.

Mindful play.

Fertile grounds are here now, locked away in data centers,

and we need the right keys, the right interfaces and scaffolding to enter the premises.

We are using machines that we can talk to basically naturally.

But we are overly constraining how people talk to these machines.

We need to leverage our inborn evolutionary conversational abilities.

And help people ask better questions of these immense language models,

without having to learn a whole new set of techniques, settings, concepts...

We need new experiences.